Note 7 — ADVERTISEMENT OF WARBURTON TO HIS EDITION OF POPE'S WORKS, 1751.
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Either Warburton had never heard of Madame de Sévigné's letters, or what is more likely, he was unable to taste their charm. Their delicate graces, and native liveliness, would have been lost upon the man who thought that Pope's artificial epistles were "true models of familiar" letters.