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...The Proteus of their talents ; but his own Breathed most in ridicule, which as the wind, lilewwhere it listed, laying all things prone, Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. This is the well deserved eulogium of Voltaire from the brainnrf one of our greatest poets since Milton...

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