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[ Butler, in a satire of great asperity, says,
"For, though to smelter words of Greek
And Latin be the rhetorique
Of pedants counted, and vainglorious,
To smatter French is meritorious.">[
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[ The most offensive instance which I remember is in a poem on the coronation of Charles the Second by Dryden, who certainly could not plead poverty as an excuse for borrowing words from any foreign tongue:—
"Hither in summer evenings you repair
To taste the fraicheur of the cooler air.">[
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[ Jeremy Collier has censured this odious practice with his usual force and keenness.]
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[ The contrast will be found in Sir Walter Scott's edition of Dryden.]