The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 eBook

Alexander Pope

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THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER	1
MORAL ESSAYS.	1
EPISTLE I.—TO SIR RICHARD TEMPLE, LORD COBHAM.	2
VARIATIONS.	7
EPISTLE II.—TO A LADY.	7
VARIATIONS.	12
EPISTLE III.[20]—TO ALLEN LORD BATHURST.	12
VARIATIONS.	20
EPISTLE IV.—TO RICHARD BOYLE, EARL OF BURLINGTON.	20
VARIATION.	24
EPISTLE V. TO MR ADDISON.	24
TRANSLATIONS AND IMITATIONS.	25
THE FABLE OF DRYOPE.[56]	30
VERTUMNUS AND POMONA,	32
THE FIRST BOOK OF STATIUS’S THEBAIS.	34
JANUARY AND MAY.	49
THE WIFE OF BATH, HER PROLOGUE.	62
PROLOGUE AND EPILOGUES	69
PROLOGUE TO MR ADDISON’S ‘CATO.’	69
PROLOGUE TO THOMSON’S ’SOPHONISBA.’[59]	70
PROLOGUE, DESIGNED FOR MR D’URFEY’S LAST PLAY.	71
PROLOGUE TO ‘THE THREE HOURS AFTER MARRIAGE’	71
EPILOGUE TO MR ROWE’S ‘JANE SHORE.’	72
MISCELLANIES	73
LINES	75
VERBATIM FROM BOILEAU.	76
ANSWER TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTION OF MRS HOWE.	76
OCCASIONED BY SOME VERSES OF HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.	76
MACER: A CHARACTER.	76
SONG,	77
ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT.	77
ON HIS GROTTO AT TWICKENHAM,	77
ROXANA, OR THE DRAWING-ROOM.	78
TO LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE.	78
EXTEMPORANEOUS LINES	79
LINES SUNG BY DURASTANTI,	79
UPON THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH’S HOUSE AT WOODSTOCK.	79
VERSES LEFT BY MR POPE.	79
THE CHALLENGE, A COURT BALLAD.	80
THE THREE GENTLE SHEPHERDS.	80
EPIGRAM,	81
THE TRANSLATOR.	81
THE LOOKING-GLASS.	81
A FAREWELL TO LONDON	81
SANDYS’ GHOST;[82]	82
UMBRA.[85]	83
SYLVIA, A FRAGMENT.	83
IMPROMPTU TO LADY WINCHELSEA.	83
EPIGRAM.	84
EPIGRAM ON THE FEUDS ABOUT HANDEL AND BONONCINI.	84
ON MRS TOFTS, A CELEBRATED OPERA SINGER.	84
THE BALANCE OF EUROPE.	84
EPITAPH ON LORD CONINGSBY.	84
EPIGRAM.	84
EPIGRAM FROM THE FRENCH.	84
EPITAPH ON GAY.	84
EPIGRAM ON THE TOASTS OF THE KIT-CAT CLUB, ANNO 1716.	84
TO A LADY, WITH THE ‘TEMPLE OF FAME.’	84
ON THE COUNTESS OF BURLINGTON CUTTING PAPER.	84
ON DRAWINGS OF THE STATUES OF APOLLO, VENUS, AND HERCULES,	85
ON BENTLEY’S ‘MILTON.’	85
LINES	85
TO ERINNA.	85
A DIALOGUE.	85
ODE TO QUINBUS FLESTRIN,	85
THE LAMENTATION OF GLUMDALCLITCH FOR THE LOSS OF GRILDRIG.	86
TO MR LEMUEL GULLIVER,	87
MARY GULLIVER TO CAPTAIN LEMUEL GULLIVER.	88
THE FOURTH EPISTLE OF THE FIRST BOOK OF HORACE.[128]	92
EPIGRAM	92
ON AN OLD GATE.	92
A FRAGMENT.	92
TO MR GAY,	93
ARGUS.	93
PRAYER OF BRUTUS.	93
LINES ON A GROTTO, AT CRUX-EASTON, HANTS.	93
THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER	94
THE DUNCIAD.	94
A LETTER TO THE PUBLISHER,	94
MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS HIS PROLEGOMENA AND ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE DUNCIAD:	99
DENNIS, REMARKS ON PR. ARTHUR.	99
TESTIMONIES OF AUTHORS	100
M. SCRIBLERUS LECTORI S.	100
MR PRIOR	103
MR LEWIS THEOBALD	103
MR THEOBALD, MIST’S JOURNAL, JUNE 8, 1728,)	104
MIST’S JOURNAL, JUNE 8, 1728,)	104
JOHN DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM	106
MR LEWIS THEOBALD	108
MR OLDMIXON	109
THE AUTHOR OF A LETTER TO MR CIBBER	109
MR LEONARD WELSTED	110
RICARDUS ARISTARCHUS OF THE HERO OF THE POEM.	115
BY AUTHORITY.	121
THE DUNCIAD:[234]	122
BOOK THE FIRST.	122
ARGUMENT.	122
VARIATIONS.	128
BOOK THE SECOND.	129
VARIATIONS.	137
BOOK THE THIRD.	137
VARIATIONS.	143
BOOK THE FOURTH.	144
VARIATIONS.	156
BY THE AUTHOR.	157
APPENDIX TO THE DUNCIAD.	157
II.—A LIST OF BOOKS, PAPERS, AND VERSES,	159
VERSES, LETTERS, ESSAYS, OR ADVERTISEMENTS, IN THE PUBLIC PRINTS.	160
AFTER THE DUNCIAD, 1728.	161
III.—ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION—WITH NOTES,	162
	163
VI.—ADVERTISEMENT PRINTED IN THE JOURNALS, 1730.	164
VII.—A PARALLEL OF THE CHARACTERS OF MR DRYDEN AND MR POPE,	164
MR POPE—HIS POLITICS, RELIGION, MORALS.	166
INDEX	167
THE FIRST NUMBER SHOWS THE BOOK; THE SECOND, THE VERSE.	167
FOOTNOTES:	169

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