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higheft pinnacle of celebrity. From Pope we learn the value of 

 prudential habits in life and literature ; from the paucity and po- 

 verty of charfler in Virgil's ^neid we fee that to great works 

 fomething more is required than the labours of the ftudy ; and 

 from every confiderable defedt of a great author we learn the 

 injuries of a vain or imperious temper, which will not fubmit to 

 eftablifhed regulation, nor floop to confult fuch friends as have 

 capacity to judge and honefty to cenfure. 



