THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

ALEXANDER POPE.

EDITED BY ROBERT CARRUTHERS.

Ellustrated by Portraits and Original Designs.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOLUME IV.

LONDON: NATHANIEL COOKE,

MILFORD HOUSE, STRAND.

1854.

Harvard College Library
Lefferts

Pone Collection
April 20, 1910

LONDON: PRINTED BY REED AND PARDON, PATERNOSTER ROW.

CONTENTS OF VOL. IV.

MORAL ESSAYS, in Four Epistles to Several Persons :-

EPISTLE I. To Sir Richard Temple, Lord Cobham: Of the Know-

ledge and Character of Men

EPISTLE II. To a Lady: Of the Characters of Women

EPISTLE III. To Allen, Lord Bathurst: Of the Use of Riches

EPISTLE IV. To Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington: Of the Use of

Riches..

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SATIRES:-

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot; or, Prologue to the Satires...

Satires and Epistles of Horace imitated :—

Satire I. Book II. To Mr. Fortescue

To Mr. Bethel

To Lord Bolingbroke..

Satire II. Book II.

Epistle I. Book I.

Epistle VI.

Epistle I. Book II. To Augustus

Epistle II. Book II.

Book I. To Mr. Murray..

The Satires of Dr. John Donne, Dean of St Paul's, versified :—

Satire II.

Satire IV.

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On receiving from the Right Hon. the Lady Frances Shirley a

Standish and two Pens

A Fragment of a Poem....

MISCELLANIES:-

Argus

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Impromptu to Lady Winchilsea...

Epilogue to Mr. Rowe's Jane Shore

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Prologue to the Three Hours after Marriage

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

Prologue to Thomson's Sophonisba ....

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Occasioned by some verses of his Grace the Duke of Buckingham.. 251

Macer: a Character

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Umbra.....

Sandy's Ghost

The Translator

The Three Gentle Shepherds..

The Challenge

Roxana or, the Drawing Room

The Basset-table

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Lines sung by Durastanti in taking leave of the English Stage

What is Prudery?...

To a certain Lady at Court.

A Farewell to London

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To Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Extemporaneous Lines

To Mr. Gay

Lines Written in Windsor Forest.

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Erinna....

On his Grotto at Twickenham

On the Countess of Burlington cutting paper

The Looking-Glass

Lines on a Grotto at Crux-Easton, Hants

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Song

Verses left by Mr. Pope

A Prologue

The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch for the loss of Grildrig

Mary Gulliver to Captain Lemuel Gulliver .

To Quinbus Flestrin, The Man-Mountain

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