15443.1859

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

FROM THE LIBRARY OF GAMALIEL BRADFORD VI MAY 24, 1942

An Essay on Man. In Four Epistles to Lord Bolingbroke.

Epistle I. Of the Nature and State of Man with

respect to the Universe..

35

Epistle II. Of the nature and State of Man with

respect to himself as an Individual.....

Epistle III. Of the Nature and State of Man with

47

respect to Society.....

58

Epistle IV. Of the Nature and State of Man with

respect to Happiness..

70

Universal Prayer................

85

MORAL ESSAYS.

Epistle I. To Sir Richard Temple, Lord Cobham.

Of the Knowledge and Characters of Men...... 92

Epistle II. To a Lady. Of the Characters of

Women

104

Epistle III. To Allen, Lord Bathurst. Of the Use

of Riches....

116

Epistle IV. To Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington.

Of the Use of Riches.....

133

Epistle to Mr. Addison, occasioned by his Dialogues

on Medals

142

Ode for Music on St. Cecilia's Day...

144

Ode on Solitude. Written when the Author was about

Epistle to Robert Earl of Oxford and Mortimer. Pre-

fixed to Parnell's Poems......

156

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Epistle to James Craggs, Esq. Secretary of State...... 157

Epistle to Mr. Jervas, with Dryden's Translation of

Fresnoy's Art of Painting..

158

Epistle to Mrs. Martha Blount, with the Works of

Voiture

161

Epistle to Mrs. Teresa Blount, on her leaving the Town

after the Coronation....

164

To Mr. John Moore, Author of the celebrated Worm-

Powder.....

166

Epistle to Mrs. Martha Blount, on her Birthday.

To Mr. Thomas Southerne, on his Birthday, 1742.

Roxana; or, the Drawing Room. An Eclogue..

The Basset-Table. An Eclogue..

Verbatim from Boileau..

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Answer to the following Question of Mrs. Howe. “What

is Prudery?"

177

Lines occasioned by some Verses of his Grace the Duke

of Buckingham.

177

Prologue to Mr. Addison's Cato.....

178

Epilogue to Mr. Rowe's Jane Shore. Designed for

Mrs. Oldfield.................

179

Prologue to Thomson's Sophonisba.

181

Prologue to a Play for Mr. Dennis's Benefit, in 1733,

when he was old, blind, and in great distress..... 183

Macer. A Character...

On his Grotto at Twickenham, composed of Marbles,

Spars, Gems, Ores, and Minerals..

187

Verses to Mr. C. St. James's Place.......

188

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To Mr. Gay, who had congratulated Pope on finishing

his House and Gardens....

188

To Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.....

189

Extemporaneous Lines on a Portrait of Lady Mary

Wortley Montagu, painted by Kneller.....

190

Lines sung by Durastanti, when she took Leave of the

English Stage...

191

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Upon the Duke of Marlborough's House at Woodstock. 192

Verses left by Mr. Pope, on his lying in the same Bed

which Wilmot, the celebrated Earl of Rochester, slept

in at Adderbury, then belonging to the Duke of

Argyle, July 9th, 1739....

The Challenge. A Court Ballad..

The Three Gentle Shepherds...

Epigram, for the Collar of a Dog..

The Translator....

The Looking-glass. On Mrs. Pulteney..

An Epistle to Henry Cromwell, Esq..

A Farewell to London in the year 1715..

Prologue, designed for D'Urfey's last Play.......

Prologue to the "Three Hours after Marriage"

Sandys' Ghost; or, a Proper New Ballad, on the New

Ovid's Metamorphoses: as it was intended to be

translated by persons of quality..

Umbra....

Sylvia. A Fragment..

Impromptu, to Lady Winchelsea. Occasioned by Four

satyrical Verses on Women Wits in the Rape of the

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Lock......

213

Epigram.

214

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Epigram, on the Feuds about Handel and Bononcini.... 214

Epigram on the Toasts of the Kit-cat Club, anno 1716... 216

To a Lady, with the Temple of Fame...

216

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On the Countess of Burlington cutting Paper......

On Drawings of the Statues of Apollo, Venus, and

Hercules, made for Pope by Sir Godfrey Kneller..... 217

Argus.......

Prayer of Brutus. From Geoffrey of Monmouth.....

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