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FRONTISPIECE.

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C.Grignion sc.

That not in Fancy's Maze he wanderd long.
But stoopd to Truth, and moralizd his Song

Pope.

THE

WORKS

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Alexander Pope, Efq.

IN FOUR VOLUMES COMPLETE.

WITH HIS LAST

CORRECTIONS, ADDITIONS,

AND

IMPROVEMENTS.

Carefully collated and compared with former EDITIONS:

TOGETHER WITH

NOTES from the various CRITICS and COMMENTATORS.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

Printed for the EDITOR, and fold by J. WENMAN, No. 144, Fleet-street,
and all other Bookfellers in Great Britain and Ireland.

MDCCLXXVIII,

CONTENTS of the FIRST VOLUME.

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REFACE
Recommendatory Poems

A Discourse on Pastoral Poetry

SPRING, the first Pastoral

SUMMER, the fecond Paftoral

AUTUMN, the third Pastoral

WINTER, the fourth Pastoral

MESSIAH, a Sacred Eclogue in Imiation of Virgil's Pollio

WINDSOR FOREST

Ode on St. Cecilia's Day

Two Choruffes to the Tragedy of Brutus

Ode on Solitude

The dying Christian to his Soul, an Ode

Effay on Criticism

The Rape of the Lock

Elegy to the Memory of an unfortunate Lady

Prologue to Mr. Addison's Tragedy

Epilogue to Jane Shore

119

VII. Of Dr. Swift, The happy Life of a Country Parson

245

ESSAY on MAN, in Four Epiftles.

Epistle I. Nature and State of Man with Respect to the Universe

Epiftle II. Of the Nature and State of Man with Respect to himself as

253

an Individual

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