COOKE'S EDITION OF SELECT BRITISH POETS.

Bainted by Thirby

All human Virtue, to its latest breath,
Minds Rivy never conuer but by Death,

Printed for Caboke, Paternoster Row. July 1705.

Engraved by nicer Smith

THE

POETICAL WORKS

ALEXANDER POPE,

OF

WITH HIS LAST

CORRECTIONS, ADDITIONS,

AND

IMPROVEMENTS.

FROM THE TEXT OF DR. WARBURton.

WITH

THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

Cooke's Edition.

But fee, at length, the British Genius fmile,
And fhow'r her bounties o'er her favour'd ifle:
Behold, for Pope the twines the laurel crown,
And centers ev'ry poet's power in one.

Each Mufe for thee with kind contention ftrove,
For thee the Graces left th' Idalian grove,
With watchful fondnefs o'er thy cradle hung,
Attun'd thy voice, and form'd thy infant tongue.

Brown.

VOL. II.

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Come then, my Friend! my Genius! come along;
Oh, mafter of the poet and the fong!
And while the Mufe now ftoops, or now afcends,
To man's low paffions or their glorious ends,
Teach me, like thee, in various Nature wife,
To fall with dignity, with temper rife.
Oh! while along the ftream of time thy name
Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame,
Say, fhall my little bark attendant fail,
Purfue the triumph, and partake the gale?
Shall then this Verfe to future age pretend
Thou wert my guide, philofopher, and friend?
That, urg'd by thee, I turn'a the tuneful art
From founds to things, from fancy to the heart;
For Wit's falfe mirror held up Nature's light,
Shew'd erring Pride whatever is is right;
That virtue only makes our blifs below,
And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
Effay on Man.

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C. COOKE.