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JUVE 50
THE
POETICAL WORKS
ALEXANDER POPE.
WITH MEMOIR, EXPLANATORY NOTES, ETC.
NEW YORK: A. L. BURT, PUBLISHER.
THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 492269
ASTOR CC NOx NO TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. A
1910
CONTENTS.
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PAGE
PREFATORY MEMOIR..
PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1716.............
JUVENILE POEMS:
A Discourse on Pastoral Poetry..
Spring ......
Summer..
Autumn.......
Winter.
ESSAY ON CRITICISM......
THE RAPE OF THE LOCK......
MESSIAH: A SACRED ECLOGUE.
ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF AN UNFORTU-
NATE LADY.......
...........
PROLOGUE TO MR. ADDISON'S TRAGEDY OF
CATO............
EPILOGUE TO MR. ROWE’S JANE SHORE........
WINDSOR FOREST....
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ELOÏSA TO ABELARD.
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THE DUNCIAD:
Preface Prefixed to the Five First Editions of the
Dunciad.......
Book I.........
Book II...
Book III...
Book IV...
AN ESSAY ON MAN:
Epistle I.........
Epistle II.............
Epistle III.......
Epistle IV.....
THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER,
MORAL ESSAYS:
Epistle I..
Epistle II..
Epistle III...
Epistle IV...
Epistle V...
vvcovTIN IMUI..
......... 118
....... 122
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I
260
SATIRES:
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot.........
Second Book of Horace.-Satire I. To Mr. Fortescue. 277
Second Book of Horace.—Satire II. To Mr. Bethel. 282
First Book of Horace.-Epistle I. To Lord Boling.
broke..............
287
First Book of Horace.-Epistle VI. To Mr. Murray. 292
.
Second Book of Horace. - Epistle I. To Augustus. 296
Second Book of Horace.- Epistle II.....
Epilogue to the Satires. Dialogue I....
319
Dialogue II.............. 324
EPISTLES:
Epistle to Robert, Earl of Oxford and Mortimer.... 333
Epistle to James Craggs, Esq....
331
Epistle to Mr. Jervas....
335
Epistle to Miss Blount......
337
Epistle to the Same......
340
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m
e
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... 344
345
EPITAPHS:
On Charles Earl of Dorset..
342
On Sir William Trumbull..
On the Hon. Simon Harcourt.
343
On James Craggs, Esq......
Intended for Mr. Rowe.........
On Rowe.........
344
On Mrs. Corbet............
On the Monument of the Hon. Robert Digby, and of
his Sister Mary......
On Sir Godfrey Kneller....
346
On General Henry Withers.......
On Mr. Elijah Fenton...........
347
On Mr. Gay.....................
Another...........
Intended for Sir Isaac Newton..
348
On Dr. Francis Atterbury........
. 348
On Edmund Duke of Buckingham..
For One who would not be Buried in Westminster
Abbey.........
Another, on the Same.... .....................
:::Lord Coningsbaya's Epitaph......
350
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Da Butters Morghjent..
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS:
iode on St. Cecilia's Day ....... ...........
• Two Chofuses to the Tragedy of Brutus:
.::::: Chiorlis of Athenians..
::::::Cliorus of Souths and Virgins...........
Ode, on solitude...
:
:..........
The Dying Christian to his Soul..
To the Author of a Poem entitled Successio....
Argus........
To Henry Cromwell, Esq..........
369
371
374
pigran
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377
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS—continued.
A Farewell to London in 1715..........
361
The Basset-Table............. ................ 363
To Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.....
367
Extemporaneous Lines, on the Picture of Lady Mary
W. Montagu..........................
368
Epigram.....
On a certain Lady at Court..................... 369
To Mr. Gay........
Prologue Designed for Mr. D'Urfey's last Play.. 370
A Prologue by Mr. Pope....
Macer: à Character. .....
To Mr. John Moore..........
372
The Looking-Glass.....
Lines Sung by Durastanti when she Took Leave of
the English Stage......
....... . 374
Occasioned by some Verses of his Grace the Duke
of Buckinghain....
1............................... 375
On Mrs. Tofts.......
375
On his Grotto at Twickenham.........
376
Epigram......
Impromptu to Lady Winchilsea...
Answer to the following Question of Miss Howe-
What is Prudery ?......
Umbra.........
Verbatim from Boileau....
The Challenge.......
To Mrs. Martha Blount on her Birthday
Lines to Windsor Forest..
The Three Gentle Shepherds.....
Verses to Dr. Bolton.....
To Mr. Thomas Southern....
382
Sandys's Ghost ; or, a Proper New Ballad
New Ovid's Metamorphoses.... ...........
383
Epigram............ ...........
386
Epitaphs on John Hughes and Sarah Drew..... 386
On a Picture of Queen Caroline.........
387
On the Countess of Burlington Cutting Paper...
On an Old Gate at Chiswick.....
389
Song...........................
Upon the Duke of Marlborough's House at Wood-
stock.....................
Epigram to Lord Radnor.......
Verses left by Mr. Pope. .......
Verses to Mr. Craggs........
To Quinbus Flestrin, the Man-Mountain.... 391
On certain Ladies.......
395
The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch for the Loss of
Grildrig ........
392
To Mr. Lemuel Gulliver......
394
Lines on Swift's Ancestors..
Epigram...
1.......................................
396
Epigram....
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