96

Anonymous Poems 37, 94, 95, 97-99, 121-123, 130, 147-149, 178-180,

208, 209, 222-224, 228, 229, 233-235, 258-260, 275, 298-300

BAILLIE (1665-1746); Lady GRISSEL (HUME, afterwards)

BAKER, F.R.S. (1698-1774); HENRY

BARBER (1690-1757); MARY

BEDINGFIELD (c. 1720); WILLIAM .

BOOTH (1681-1733); BARTON.

BYROM, F.R.S. (1692-1763); JOHN.

Carey (? –1743); HENRY

202, 203

230-232

CHUDLEIGH (1656-1710); MARY (LEE, afterwards) Lady

CIBBER, Poet Laureate (1671-1757); COLLEY [=THEOPHILUS]

COCKBURN (1679-1749); CATHARINE (TROTTER, afterwards)

CONCANEN (1701-1749); MATTHEW

Congreve (1670-1729); WILLIAM .

CONWAY, Countess of HERTFORD (1726-1782); ISABELLA

(FITZROY, afterwards)

DODSLEY (1703-1764); ROBERT

ELLWOOD, of the Society of Friends (1639-1713); THOMAS

EUSDEN, Poet Laureate (1688-1730); Rev. LAURENCE

FARQUHAR (1678-1707); GEORGE

50, 51

256,257

277

204, 205

56-60

142

294-297

61

136

64, 65

FIELDING (1707-1754); HENRY

261,262

FINCH, Countess of WINCHILSEA (1666-1720); ANNE (KINGS-

GRANVILLE, Lord LANSDOWNE (1667-1735); GEORGE.

HOADLY, Chancellor of the diocese of WINCHESTER (1711-

1776); Rev. JOHN.

242-243

196-198

96

152-155

128, 129

252-255

HOWARD, Earl of SUFFOLK (1671-1731); EDWARD
LEVERIDGE (1670-1758); RICHARD

.

LYTTELTON, Lord LYTTELTON (1709-1773); GEORGE
[? MALLET (1705-1765); DAVID
MILLER (1706-1744); Rev. JAMES.
MONK (c. 1716); Hon. MARY.

MONTAGU (1689-1762); Lady MARY (PIERREPONT, after-

wards) WORTLEY

143-146, 152-155

MORDAUNT, Earl of PETERBOROUGH (1658-1735); CHARLES

MOTTEUX (1660-1718); PIERRE ANTOINE

225

66,67

292, 293

114-120

104-108

93

1-36, 46, 47, 109, 150, 151

PAGET, Lord PAGET (1689-1742); THOMAS CATESBY

PARNELL, D.D., Archdeacon of Clogher (1679–1718); THOMAS

PHILIPS (1675-1749); AMBROSE

PHILIPS (1676-1709); JOHN

POPE (1688-1744); ALEXANDER

POPPLE (1701-1764); WILLIAM

PRIOR (1664-1721); MATTHEW

R., S. (c. 1724)

RAMSAY (1686-1758); ALLAN .

RowE, Poet Laureate (1674–1718); NICHOLAS

SAVAGE (?-1743); RICHARD .

SHEFFIELD, Duke of BUCKINGHAM (1648-1721); JOHN

SOMERVILLE (1675-1742); WILLIAM

STEELE (1672-1729); Captain Sir RICHARD

SWIFT, Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin (1667–

1745); JONATHAN .

THOMSON (1700-1748); JAMES

251

68-92

194, 195

181-185

218-220

124-127

THURSTON (c. 1729); JOSEPH

TICKELL (1686-1740); THOMAS

WALSH (1663-1708); WILLIAM

52-54

WEST, the friend of THOMAS GRAY (?-1642); RICHARD

285-287

WILLIAMS, Knight of the Bath (1709-1759); Sir CHARLES

HANBURY

288-291

YONGE, Bart. (?-1775); Rt. Hon. Sir WILLIAM

236, 237

FIRST LINES AND NOTES

GLOSSARY AND INDEX.

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307

THE

POPE

ANTHOLOGY.

1701-1744 A.D.

ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT. [HENRIETTA HOWARD, COUNTESS OF SUFFOLK.]

I KNOW the thing that 's most uncommon ! (ENVY, be silent; and attend!)

I know a reasonable woman;

Handsome and witty, yet a friend!

Not warped by passion, awed by rumour;
Not grave through pride, or gay through folly ;
An equal mixture of good humour

And sensible soft melancholy.

'Has she no faults then,' ENVY says, 'Sir?'
Yes, she has one, I must aver!

When all the World conspires to praise her;
The woman's deaf, and does not hear!

ODE ON SOLITUDE.

The

[This imitation of HORACE's Ode, Beatus integer, &c., was written in 1700, when young ALEXANDER POPE was not twelve years old. present is his revised text of 1736.]

HAPPY the man! whose wish and care

A few paternal acres bound; Content to breathe his native air

In his own ground:

Whose herds, with milk; whose fields, with bread;
Whose flocks supply him with attire:
Whose trees, in Summer yield him shade;
In Winter, fire.

Blest! who can unconcern'dly find
Hours, days, and years slide soft away
In health of body, peace of mind,
Quiet by day,

Sound sleep by night; study and ease
Together mixt; sweet recreation;
And innocence, which most does please,
With meditation.

Thus, let me live, unseen! unknown!
Thus, unlamented, let me die!

Steal from the world; and not a stone
Tell where I lie!

THESE, equal syllables alone require;
Though oft, the ear the open vowels tire!
While expletives, their feeble aid do join;
And ten low words oft creep in one dull line;
While they ring round the same unvaried chimes,
With sure returns of still expected rhymes.
Where'er you find the cooling western breeze,
In the next line, it whispers through the trees.
If crystal streams with pleasing murmurs creep,
The Reader's threatened, not in vain, with sleep.
Then, at the last, and only couplet fraught

With some unmeaning thing they call a thought,
A needless Alexandrine ends the Song,

That, like a wounded snake, draws its slow length along.
Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes; and know
What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow!
And praise the easy vigour of a line,

Where DENHAM's strength and WALLER's sweetness join!
[True ease in writing comes from art, not chance;
As those move easiest who have learned to dance.]
'Tis not enough, no harshness gives offence;
The Sound must seem an echo to the Sense!

Soft is the strain when ZEPHYR gently blows; And the smooth stream, in smoother Numbers flows: But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough Verse should, like the torrent, roar! When AJAX strives, some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so, when swift CAMILLA scours the plain; Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the Main.