The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In Verse and Prose

Strahan and Preston,

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THE

WORKS

OF

Alexander Pope, Efq.

IN VERSE AND PROSE.

CONTAINING

THE PRINCIPAL NOTES of

DRS. WARBURTON AND WARTON:

ILLUSTRATIONS, AND CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY REMARKS,
BY JOHNSON, WAKEFIELD, A. CHALMERS, F.S.A.

AND OTHERS.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED, NOW FIRST PUBLISHED,

SOME ORIGINAL LETTERS,

WITH ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS, AND MEMOIRS OF THE
LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

By the Rev. WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES, A. M.

PREBENDARY OF SALISBURY, AND

CHAPLAIN TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES.

IN TEN VOLUMES.

VOL. VIII.

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C.ONTENTS

OF THE

EIGHTH VOLUM E.

[The Articles marked thus † were not inferted in Dr. WARBURTON'S

Edition.]

LETTER

LETTERS to and from EDWARD

BLOUNT, Efq.

From 1714 to 1725.

I. Of the Geography of Homer, a map done by

the Author. The ftate of the times: The fiege
of Barcelona, the Queen's death, the condi-
tion of the English Roman Catholics: Wishes
for the peace of the nation

I. From Mr. Blount. Anfwer to the former. His

temper in religion and politics.

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III. From Mr. Blount. His difpofition to quiet; re-

flections on the affair of Prefton: An invitation

IV. An account of the death of Mr. Wycherley
V. Contemplations on the pleasures of feparate Spirits,
on the narrow conceptions of men, the vanity
of human knowledge, the variety of opinions
in religion, and the great duty of charity