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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1, Poetry - Volume 1

Note 173 — WINDSOR FOREST.

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"Exalt" is an inefficient and prosaic word.—Wakefield.

The word is certainly not "prosaic," for no one in prose would talk of exalting a sail, but it is "inefficient," just because it is one of those deviations from common speech, which sound affected.

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