The poetical works of Alexander Pope, with a life, by A. Dyce - Alexander Pope - Google Books

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AN Essay on Criticism..

An Essay on Man. In Four Epistles to Lord Bolingbroke. 31

Epistle I. Of the Nature and State of Man with

respect to the Universe....

Epistle II. Of the Nature and State of Man with

respect to himself as an Individual..

Epistle III. Of the Nature and State of Man with

respect to Society....

Epistle IV. Of the Nature and State of Man with

respect to Happiness....

Universal Prayer....

Epistle I. To Sir Richard Temple, Lord Cobham.

Of the Knowledge and Characters of Men.

Epistle II. To a Lady. Of the Characters of

Epistle III. To Allen, Lord Bathurst. Of the Use

Epistle IV. To Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington.

Of the Use of Riches....

Epistle to Mr. Addison, occasioned by his Dialogues

Ode for Music on St. Cecilia's Day..

Ode on Solitude. Written when the Author was about

Epistle to Robert Earl of Oxford and Mortimer. Pre-

fixed to Parnell's Poems.

Epistle to James Craggs, Esq. Secretary of State...... 157

Epistle to Mr. Jervas, with Dryden's Translation of

Fresnoy's Art of Painting......

Epistle to Mrs. Martha Blount, with the Works of

Epistle to Mrs. Teresa Blount, on her leaving the Town

after the Coronation.....

To Mr. John Moore, Author of the celebrated Worm-

Epistle to Mrs. Martha Blount, on her Birthday...............

To Mr. Thomas Southerne, on his Birthday, 1742.

Roxana, or, the Drawing Room. An Eclogue..

The Basset-Table. An Eclogue..

- Verbatim from Boileau.....

Answer to the following Question of Mrs. Howe. "What

Lines occasioned by some Verses of his Grace the Duke

of Buckingham....

Prologue to Mr. Addison's Cato..

Epilogue to Mr. Rowe's Jane Shore. Designed for

Mrs. Oldfield.....

Prologue to Thomson's Sophonisba....

Prologue to a Play for Mr. Dennis's Benefit, in 1733,

when he was old, blind, and in great distress......... 183

Macer. A Character.....

Song, by a Person of Quality. Written in the year

On a certain Lady at Court... ..

On his Grotto at Twickenham, composed of Marbles,

Spars, Gems, Ores, and Minerals..

Verses to Mr. C. St. James's Place...

To Mr. Gay, who had congratulated Pope on finishing

his House and Gardens...

To Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.

Extemporaneous Lines on a Portrait of Lady Mary

Wortley Montagu, painted by Kneller.....

Lines sung by Durastanti, when she took Leave of the

English Stage..

Upon the Duke of Marlborough's House at Woodstock. 192

Verses left by Mr. Pope, on his lying in the same Bed

which Wilmot, the celebrated Earl of Rochester, slept

in at Adderbury, then belonging to the Duke of

Argyle, July 9th, 1739.....

The Challenge. A Court Ballad.

The Three Gentle Shepherds..

Epigram, for the Collar of a Dog..

The Translator....

The Looking-glass. On Mrs. Pulteney.

An Epistle to Henry Cromwell, Esq..

A Farewell to London in the year 1715..

Prologue, designed for D'Urfey's last Play.

Prologue to the "Three Hours after Marriage

Sandys' Ghost, or, a Proper New Ballad, on the New

Ovid's Metamorphoses: as it was intended to be

translated by persons of quality..

Sylvia. A Fraginent..

Impromptu, to Lady Winchelsea. Occasioned by four

satirical Verses on Women Wits in the Rape of the

Epigram, on the Feuds about Handel and Bononcini..

On Mrs. Tofts, a celebrated Opera Singer..

The Balance of Europe.....

Epitaph on Lord Coningsby.

Epigram from the French.

Epigram on the Toasts of the Kit-cat Club, anno 1716... 216

To a Lady, with the Temple of Fame....

On the Countess of Burlington cutting Paper...... 216

On Drawings of the Statues of Apollo, Venus, and

Hercules, made for Pope by Sir Godfrey Kneller..... 217

Prayer of Brutus. From Geoffrey of Monmouth.......

An Inscription upon a Punch-bowl, in the South Sea

Year, for a Club, chased with Jupiter placing Callisto

in the skies, and Europa with the Bull.

Lines on a Grotto at Crux-Easton, Hants.

On Bentley's Milton......

Lines, "All hail, once pleasing, once inspiring shade"

Adriani morientis ad animam, translated..

A Dialogue.......

Ode to Quinbus Flestrin, the Man Mountain, by Titty

Tit, Poet Laureate to his Majesty of Lilliput. Trans-

lated into English.....

The Lamentation of Glumdalelitch for the Loss of

Grildrig. A Pastoral....

To Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, the grateful Address of the

unhappy Houyhnhnms, now in slavery and bondage

Mary Gulliver to Captain Lemuel Gulliver. An Epistle 229

The Temple of Fame....

January and May. From Chaucer..

The Wife of Bath. Her Prologue. From Chaucer..... 281

IMITATIONS OF ENGLISH POETS.

Spenser. The Alley....

Waller. On a Lady singing to her Lute..

On a Fan of the Author's Design, in which was

painted the Story of Cephalus and Procris, with

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Dr. Swift. The happy Life of a country Parson..

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