WORKS

OF

Alexander Pope, Efq.

VOLUME II.

CONTAINING HIS-

IMITATIONS, MORAL ESSAYS,
SATIRES, etc.

LONDON:

Printed for C. BATHURST; J. RIVINGTON and Sons;
B. WHITE; T. LONGMAN; B. LAW; S. CROWDER;
J. ROBSON; J. JOHNSON; J. KNOX; G. ROBINSON
and Co.; T. CADELL; J. NICHOLS; R. BALDWIN;
and J. BEW.

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CHARVA

UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

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OF THE

SECOND

VOLUM E.

IMITATIONS of ENGLISH POETS.

I. Of CHAUCER

II. Of SPENSER, The ALLEY

III. Of WALLER, On a lady finging to her lute

On a FAN of the author's defign, in which

was painted the story of CEPHALUS and

PROCRIS, with the Motto, AURA VENI

IV. Of CowLEY, The GARDEN

WEEPING

V. Of the E. of ROCHESTER, ON SILENCE

VI. Of the E. of DORSET, ARTEMISIA

PHRYNE

PART I.

PART II.

PART III.

VII. Of Dr. SWIFT, The happy life of a country

parfon

P. 3

4

6

13

An ESSAY on SATIRE, occafioned by the death
of Mr. POPE; in Three Parts.

11

12

19

25

31

ESSAY on MAN, in FoUR EPISTLES.

EPISTLE I. Of the nature and fate of man

with respect to the univerfe
41

EPISTLE II. Of the nature and ftate of man with

respect to himself, as an individual

54

EPISTLE III. Of the nature and fate of man with

respect to fociety
68

EPISTLE IV. Of the nature and ftate of man with

respect to happiness

The UNIVERSAL PRAYER

MORAL ESSAY S.

EPISTLE I.

Of the knowledge and characters of

MEN

EPISTLE II.

EPISTLE III.

EPISTLE IV.

EPISTLE V. To Mr. Addifon, occafioned by his

Dialogues on MEDALS

173

PROLOGUE to the SATIRES, in an Epistle to

Dr. ARBUTHNOT

179

SATIRES and EPISTLES of HORACE

imitated.

Of the characters of WOMEN

Of the use of RICHES

Of the ufe of RICHES

SATIRE II.

SATIRE IV.

81

101

The Second Book of the Satires of Horace, SAT. I. 204

The Second Book of the Satires of Horace, SAT. II. 220

The First Book of the Epifiles of Horace, Er. I. 234

The First Book of the Epiftles of Horace, EP. VI. 248

The Second Book of the Epiftles of Horace, EP. I.

The Second Book of the Epiftles of Horace, EP. II. 288

258

SATIRES of Dr. JOHN DONNE, Dean of

St. Paul's, verfified.

EPILOGUE to the SATIRES.

III

125

139

160

DIALOGUE I.

DIALOGUE II.

310

319

On receiving from the Right Honourable the Lady

FRANCES SHIRLEY, a flandish and two pens

5

337

347

359

IMI.