But if fimplicity, with force and fire,
Unlabour'd thoughts and artless words inspire;
If, like the action which these scenes relatey
The whole appear irregularly great;.
If master-strokes the nobler passions inove :
Then, like the king, acquit us, and approve.

INSCRIPTIONS AT HAGLEY,

I. On a View from an ALCOVE,

VIRIDANTIA TEMPE! TEMPE, QVAE SYLVAE CINGUNT SVPERIMPEN.

DENTES.

II. On a Rocky FANCY SEAT,

EGO LAVDO RVRIS AMOENI, RIVOS, ET MVSCO CIRVMLITA SAXA NEMVSQVE.

III.

TO THE MEMORY OF
WILLIAM SHENSTONE, ESQUIRE ;

IN WHOSE VERSES
WERE ALL THE NATURAL GRACES,

AND IN WHOSE MANNERS

WAS ALL THE AMIABLE SIMPLICITY,

OF PASTORAL POETRY,
WITH THE SWEET TENDERNESS

OF THE ELEGIAC.

H4

IV. On IV. On the Pedestal of an URN*,

ALEXANDRO POPE ;

POETARVM ANGLICANORVM

ELEGANTISSIMO DVLCISSIMOQVE;
VIRORVM CASTIGATORI ACERRIMO,
SAPIENTIAE DOCTORI SVAVISSIMO,

SACRA ESTO.

ANN. DOM. MDCCXLIV.

V. On a BENCH.
LIBET IACERE MODO SVB ANTIQVA ILICE,

MODO IN TENACE GRAMINE;
LABVNTVR ALTIS INTERIM RIVIS AQVAE;

QVAERVNTVR IN SYLVIS AVES :
FONTESQVE LYMPHIS OBSTREPVNT MANANTIBVS
SOMNOS QUOD INVITET LEVES.

VI, On THOMSON'S SEAT t.

INGENIO IMMORTALI

IACOBI THOMSON,
POETAÉ SVBLIMIS,

VIRI BONI;
AEDICVLAM HANC, QUEM VIVVS DILEXIT,
POST MORTEM EIVS CONSTRUCTAM,

DICAT DEDICATQVE
GEORGIVS LYTTELTON.

* A Doric portico in another part of the park is ho-
noured with the name of “ Pope's Building,” and
inscribed, QVIETI ET MVSIS.

+ A very handsome and well-finished building, in
an octagonal line.

CONTENTS

In Four

THE PROGRESS OF LOVE. .

Eclogues.

I. Uncertainty. To Mr. Pope,

II. Hope. To Mr. Doddington,

III. Jealousy. To Mr. Edward Walpole,

IV. Possession. To Lord Cobham,

Page 3

6

10

14

the Year 1727,

Soliloquy of a Beauty in the country. Written at

Eaton School,

17

Blenheim. Written at the University of Oxford, in

19

To the Reverend Dr. Ayscough, at Oxford. Writ-

ten from Paris in the Year 1728,

25

To Mr. Poyntz, Ambasador at the Congress of

Soissons, in 1728. Written at Paris,

30

Verses to be written under a Picture of Mr. Poyntz, 33

An Epistle to Mr. Pope. From Rome, 1730. 34

To Lord Hervey, in the Year 2730. From Wor-

cestershire,

37

Advice to a Lady. 1731.

39

Song.

in 1.729,

Song. Written in the Year 1732,

Page 44

Song. Written in the Year 1733,

45

Damon and Delia. In Imitation of Horace and

Lydia. Written in the Year 1732,

47

Ode, in Imitation of Pastor Fido. Written Abroad

49
Parts of an Elegy of Tibullus. Translated
1729-30,

50

Song. Written in the Year 1732,

52

Verses written at Mr. Pope's House at Twicken-

ham, which he liad lent to Mrs. Greville. In

August, 1735.

53

Epigram,

54

To Mr. Welt, at Wickham. Written in the Year
1740,

ibid.

To Miss Lucy Fortescue,

55

To the same ; with Hammond's Elegies, ibid,

To the same,

56

To the fame,

ibid.

A Prayer to Venus, in her Temple at Stowe. To

the same,

57

To the same. On her pleading Want of Time,

58

To the same,

59

To the same,

60

To the fame ; with a new Watch,

61

An Irregular Ode. Written at Wickham in 1746.

To the fame,

ibid.

To the Memory of the fame Lady. A Monody.

A.D. 1747

84

85

Verses, making Part of an Epitaph on the fame.

Lady,

Page 74

Horace. Book IV. Ode IV. Written at Oxford
1725

75

Virtue and Fame. To the Countess of Egremont, 79

Addition, extempore, by Earl Hardwicke,

80

Letter to Earl Hardwicke : occasioned by the fore-

going verses,

81

Hymn to Eliza,

82

On reading Miss Carter's Poems in Manuscript,

Mount Edgecumbe,

Invitation. To the Dowager Duchess D’Aiguillon, 86

To Colonel Drumgold,

ibid.

Epitaph on Captain Grenville,

88

On Captain Cornwall, Nain off Toulon, 1743, ibid.
On Good Humour. Written at Eaton-School,
1729,

89

Some Additional Stanzas to Astolfo's Voyage to the

Moon, in Ariosto,

90

To a Young Lady. With the Tragedy of Venice

Preserved,

92

Elegy,

94

Inscription for a Bust of Lady Suffolk; designed

to be set up in a Wood at Stowe, 1732, 95

Sulpicia to Cerinthus, in her Sickness. From Ti.

bullus. (Sent to a Friend, in a Lady's Name) ib.

Sulpicia to Cerinthus,

Cato's Speech to Labienus, in the Ninth Book of

Lucan,

ibid.

To

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