THE

WORKS

OF

ALEXANDER POPE, ESQ.

WITH

NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS,

BY

HIMSELF AND OTHERS.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

A NEW LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

AN ESTIMATE OF HIS POETICAL CHARACTER AND WRITINGS,

AND OCCASIONAL REMARKS, BY

WILLIAM ROSCOE, ESQ.

NEW EDITION,

IN EIGHT VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

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CONTENTS

OF

THE THIRD VOLUME.

PAGE

ODE on St. Cecilia's Day

TWO CHORUSES to the Tragedy of Brutus

THE DYING CHRISTIAN to his Soul

ELOISA TO ABELARD

EPISTLES

To Mr. Addison on his Dialogues on Medals

To Robert, Earl of Oxford, prefixed to Parnelle's poems

To James Craggs, Esq. Secretary of State

To Mr. Jervas, with Dryden's Translation of Fresnoy

To Mrs. Martha Blount, on her Birth-day

To the same, with the Works of Voiture

To Mrs. Teresa Blount, on leaving Town

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

PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES

Prologue to Mr. Addison's Tragedy of Cato

to Sophonisba

to a play for Mr. Dennis

Epilogue to Mr. Rowe's Jane Shore

MISCELLANIES

75

79

Lines occasioned by some Verses by the Duke of Buckingham

Macer, a Character

To Mr. John Moore, author of the celebrated Worm-Powder

81

ib.

To Mr. Gay, who had congratulated him on finishing his house and