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Mr. Dryden. Otway.
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Several other of our Poets deserve to be remembred, and they should not be omitted, if I thought these Sheets a Record. I have already mentioned Mr. Dryden on the wrong Side of a Comparison, and it would be Injustice to pass him by, when I may mention him on the Right. For, certainly, there never rose a happier Genius, and a more absolute Master of Language, and Numbers. All his Poems were extremely studied, and he made every Thing he borrowed so much his own, that he improved the brightest Passages of the Greeks and Romans, and repaid them with abundant Interest.
Otway writes with so fine a Spirit, with so perfect a Com-
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