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CRITICAL ESSAYS

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DRAMATIC POETRY.

B Y

aucer's Marielrout de
Monfieur de VOLTAIRE.

W IT H

NOTES by the TRANSLATOR.

Et vos, O Lauri, carpam, et te, proxima Myrte,
Sic pofitæ quoniam fuaves mifcetis odores.

VIRGIL,

LONDON:
Printed for L. DAVIS and C. REY MERS,

against Gray's-Inn, Holborn. MDCCLXI.

1935 t

12

10

Engl.

2-2-38 16497

ADVERTISEMENT.

TH

HE tranflator had often read with pleasure the following effays in the original; and was as often forry, that no writer of genius had undertaken to publish, in english, a complete translation of all monfieur de Voltaire's plays, or as the french term it, his Theatre, to which thefe feveral differtations are prefixed.

Such an attempt would have been too great for the leisure or for the abilities of the present tranflator. Mr. Dryden's prefaces, which have done fo great nour to that name, and which run pretty much on the fame subject with these

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of M. de Voltaire, have long been wifhed for, in a feparate edition from the reft of his works. To this thought, it must be confeffed, is owing the publication here given a task. no ways unpleafing to the perfon who undertook it; nor, as he hopes, will be an unacceptable prefent to the public: efpecially fince thofe who have already gratified us with mafterly imitations of fome of M. de Voltaire's theatrical pieces, have omitted the prefatory difcourfes, which the author. himself thought neceffary.

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