The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others

The Looking Glass

A Farewell to London, 1715

Prologue designed for Mr. D'Urfey's last play

Prologue to the Three Hours after Marriage

Sandys' Ghost

Umbra

On Mrs. Tofts, a celebrated Opera Singer

The Balance of Europe

Applied to Francis Chartres

Epigram

Epigram, from the French

Epitaph

Epigram on the Toasts of the Kit-Kat club

To a Lady, with the Temple of Fame

On the Countess of Burlington cutting paper

Sylvia, a Fragment

Impromptu to Lady Winchelsea

Epigram

Epigram on the Feuds about Handel and Bonon-

POEMS on reading the Travels of Captain Lemuel

Gulliver.

To Quinbus Flestrin, the Man Mountain

The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch for the loss of

Grildrig

470

To Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, the grateful address of

the unhappy Houyhnhnms

Mary Gulliver to Captain Lemuel Gulliver, an

Epistle

468

473

475

John Brown, A.M., afterwards D.D. and author of the following Essay on Satire, is also advantageously known to the literary public by several other works, and particularly by his Essays on the Characteristics of Lord Shaftesbury, of which there háve been many editions. Another work of his, which obtained still greater popularity, was his “Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times,” where he endeavoured, by the severity of his invective against the indolence and selfishness of his countrymen, to rouse them to useful and honourable exertion, in which noble and patriotic attempt he is supposed to have had considerable success. His Tragedy of Barbarossa was brought forwards with great advantage by Garrick, and for some time kept possession of the stage. He also wrote a poem, intitled “Honour," addressed to Lord Lonsdale, and an ode intitled “The Cure of Saul,” which was set to music and performed as an oratorio. The former of these may be found in the third volume of Dodsley's Collection of Poems, and the latter in the second volume of the supplemental collection of Pearch. Many other pieces of his are enumerated in the Biographia Britannica, where a further account of the circumstances of his life, and of its unhappy termination, may be found.

To the character of Dr. Brown, both moral and intellectual, the following piece does great credit; and in the situation where it is now placed, it may serve as no unsuitable introduction to the Satires of Pope, as it contains sound principles and correct critical opinions, and is

the whole one of the best imitations of the style and manner of Pope that have hitherto appeared.

upon

CONTENTS.

PART I.

Of the End and Efficacy of Satire. The Love of Glory and fear

of Shame universal, Ver. 29. This Passion, implanted in Man
as a Spur to Virtue, is generally perderted, Ver. 41. And thus
becomes the Occasion of the greatest Follies, Vices, and Miseries,
Ver. 61. It is the work of Satire to rectify this Passion, to re-
duce it to its proper Channel, and to condert it into an Incentive
to Wisdom and Virtue, Ver. 89. Hence it appears, that Satire
may influence those who defy all Laws Human and Divine,
Ver. 99. An Objection answered, Ver. 131.