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REFLECTIONS on the PECULIARITIES 0/ STYLE and 

 MANNER in the late GERMAN WRITERS whofe 

 WORKS have appeared in ENGLISH, and on the TEN- 

 DENCY of their PRODUCTIONS. Ry WILLIAM 

 PRESTON, Ejq; M.R.I. A. 



Verbera, carnifices, robur, pix, lamina, taedae. 



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N extraordinary revolution feems to be taking place in the Read. Not. 

 republic of letters, as well as in other flates ; and the mufes, in the 

 more fouthern parts of Europe, appear to be menaced with fub- 

 jettion, if not with extirpation, by invading fwarms from the 

 northern hive. That England is peculiarly in danger of this fate, 

 appears, from thfe extraordinary degree of avidity, and almoft exclu- 

 five attention, with which the public has of late received every 

 corufcation of fancy from the north, however pale and lurid, how- 

 ever deficient in fteady light and permanent ardour. It may not 

 be an unentertaining or ufelefs enquiry, to inveftigate the preten- 

 fions of fome of the productions of the German mufe, which have 

 lately appeared in an Englifh drefs. — If the admiration bellowed 



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