THE

POEMS

OF

Alexander Pope.

VOL. II.

Chiswick:

FROM THE PRESS OF C. WHITTINGHAM,

COLLEGE HOUSE.

ESSAY on Criticism..

Essay on Man

Universal Prayer..

MORAL ESSAYS.

IN FIVE EPISTLES.

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Epistle I. To Lord Cobham. Of the Knowledge and

Characters of Men.....

Epistle II.

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To a Lady. Of the Characters of Women

Epistle III. To Lord Bathurst. Of the Use of Riches 98

Epistle IV. To the Earl of Burlington. Of the Use of

Elegy, to the Memory of an unfortunate Lady..........

134

EPISTLES.

To Robert Earl of Oxford. 1721

137

To James Craggs, Esq.

1720.....

138

To Mr. Jervas. With Dryden's Translation of Fresnoy's

Art of Painting....

139

To Miss Blount. With Voiture's Works. 1717....... 142

To the same. On her leaving the Town after the Coro-

nation.

1715

144

To Mr. John Moore, Author of the celebrated Worm

Powder

146

To Mrs. M. B. On her Birthday..

148

To Mr. Thomas Southern. On his Birthday. 1742.... 148

Page

Waller. On a Lady singing to her Lute....................

207

Earl of Dorset. Phryne...

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

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot. Being a Prologue to the Sa-

212

213

tires.........

214

Occasioned by some Verses of his Grace the Duke of

Buckingham.......

233

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

when he was old, blind, and in great Distress, a little

before his Death.....

233

To Lady M. W. Montague....

239

To the Author of a Panegyric on Mrs. Grace Butler..... 240

Inscription on a Grotto of Shells..

241

A Dialogue....

241

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

which the Earl of Rochester used at Atterbury........ 242

To the Duke of Argyle.............

242

Epigram on Mrs. Tofts..

243

Epigram on one who made long Epitaphs

243

To Sir Godfrey Kneller......

244

A Farewell to London

244