WORKS

OF

ALEXANDER POPE, ESQ.

WITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS

BY

HIMSELF AND OTHERS.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

A NEW LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

AN ESTIMATE OF HIS

POETICAL CHARACTER AND WRITINGS,

AND OCCASIONAL REMARKS,

BY

WILLIAM ROSCOE, ESQ.

IN TEN VOLUMES.

VOL. V.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR C. AND J. RIVINGTON; T. CADELL; LONGMAN, HURST, REES,

ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN; J. CUTHELL; J. NUNN; J. AND W. T. CLARKE ;
JEFFERY AND SON ; J. AND A. ARCH; R. H. EVANS ; JOHN RICHARDSON ; J.
M. RICHARDSON; J. MAWMAN; R. SCHOLEY ; J. BOOKER ; J. BOHN; 3. BAGSTER,
J. BOOTH; BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY; HARDING, LEPARD, AND TRIPHOOK ;
G. AND W. B. WHITTAKER ; R. SAUNDERS; J. DUNCAN; E. EDWARDS; KINGS-
BURY, PARBURY, AND ALLEN ; G. MACKIE; HURST, ROBINSON, AND CO.;
GOSSLING AND EGLEY; J. SETCHELL; J. BAIN ; AND C. WICKSTEAD; AND
DEIGHTON AND SONS, CAMBRIDGE: AND A. BLACK, AND J. FAIR BAIRN,
EDINBURGH.

CONTENTS

OF

THE FIFTH VOLUME.

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Page

ESSAY ON Man, in four Epistles

1

Epistle I.

25

Epistle II.

77

Epistle III.

. 117

Epistle IV.

. 165

THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER

223

MORAL ESSAYS

231

Epistle I. On the Knowledge and Characters of

Men. To Sir Richard Temple,

Lord Viscount Cobham

237

Epistle II. On the Characters of Women. To

a Lady

283

Epistle III. On the Use of Riches. To Allen,

Lord Bathurst

315

Epistle IV. On the Use of Riches. To Richard

Boyle, Earl of Burlington

369

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