only Deſign in this Letter, being to diſplay the Genius of the Engliſh Poets, and therefore I ſhall continue in the ſame View.
The celebrated Mr. Waller has been very much talk'd of in France, and Mr. de la Fontaine, St. Evremont and Bayle have written his Elogium, but ſtill his Name only is known. He had much the ſame Reputation in London as Voiture had in Paris, and in my Opinion deſerv'd it better. Voiture was born in an Age that was juſt emerging from Barbarity; an Age that was ſtill rude and ignorant, the People of which aim'd at Wit, tho' they had not the leaſt Pretenſions to it, and ſought for Points and Conceits inſtead of Sentiments. Briſtol Stones are more eaſily found than Diamonds. Voiture, born with an eaſy and frivolous Genius, was the firſt who ſhone in this Aurora of French Literature. Had he come into the World after thoſe great Genius's who ſpread ſuch a Glory over the Age of Lewis the Fourteenth, he would either
