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Some Account of the Life, WRITINGS,

and CHARACTER of the AUTHOR.

By WILLIAM SMITH, A. M.

Rector of TRINITY in Chester.

Thee, great Longinus! all the Nine inspire,
And fill their Critic with a Poet's Fire;
An ardent Judge, who, zealous in his Truft,
With Warmth gives Sentence, and is always just;
Whose own Example strengthens all his Laws,
And is himself the great Sublime he druws. Mr. POPE.

The Second Edition, Corrected and Improved.

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Viscount PARKER of Ewel me, and

Baron PARKER of MACCLESFIELD,

MY LORD,

T HE greatest Degree
I of Purity and Splen-
S dor united, that

LONGINUS has for