As late on Virgil's tomb fresh flow'rs I ftrow'd,
While with th' infpiring Mufe my bofom glow'd,
Crown'd with eternal bays, my ravish'd eyes
Beheld the Poet's awful Form arife;
Stranger, he faid, whofe pious hand has paid.
These grateful rites to my attentive fhade,
When thou shalt breathe thy happy native air,
To Pope this message from his Master bear:

Great Bard, whose numbers I my self inspire,
To whom I gave my own harmonious lyre,
If high exalted on the Throne of Wit,
Near Me and Homer thou afpire to fit,

No more let meaner Satire dim the rays
That flow majestic from thy nobler Bays;
In all the flow'ry paths of Pindus ftray,

But fhun that thorny, that unpleafing way;
Nor when each foft engaging Muse is thine,
Address the least attractive of the Nine.

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Of thee more worthy were the task, to raise A lafting Column to thy Country's Praise, To fing the Land, which yet, alone can boast That Liberty corrupted Rome has loft; Where Science in the arms of Peace is laid, And plants her Palm beneath the Olive's fhade. Such was the Theme for which my lyre I ftrung, Such was the People whofe exploits I fung; Brave, yet refin'd, for Arms and Arts renown'd, With different bays, by Mars and Phoebus crown'd, 70 Dauntless oppofers of Tyrannic Sway,

But pleas'd, a mild AUGUSTUS to obey.

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If

If thefe commands fubmiffive thou receive,
Immortal and unblam'd thy Name shall live,
Envy to black Cocytus fhall retire,
And houl with Furies in tormenting fire;
Approving Time fhall confecrate thy Lays,
And join the Patriot's to the Poet's Praise.

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GEORGE LYTTELTON.

THE

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TABLE.

VÖL. I.

Confifting of the Author's Original Poems, written under 25 years of age.

T

HE General Preface.

pag. 5

PASTORALS, with a Discourse on Pastoral, written.

1704.

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MESSIAH, a facred Eclogue, in imitation of Virgil's
Pollio.
WINDSOR-FOREST, to the Rt. Hon. the Lord Lanf
down.

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ODE for St. Cecilia's day, and other Pieces for Music. 87
An ESSAY on CRITICISM, written 1709.
The RAPE of the Lock, an Heroi-comical

written 1712.

ELOISA to ABELARD, an Epistle.

ELEGY to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady.
Prologue to Mr. Addifon's Tragedy of Cato.
Epilogue to Jane Shore.

VOL. II.

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Poem,

An ESSAY ON MAN, being the firft Book of ETHIC
EPISTLES, to Henry St. John Lord Bolingbroke.
ETHIC EPISTLES, the fecond Book, to feveral Per-
fons.

Epift. i. To Sir Rich. Temple, Lord Vif. Cobham.
Epift. 2. To a Lady.

Epift.

Epift. 3. To Allen Lord Bathurst.

Epift. 4. To Richard Earl of Burlington.

EPISTLES, the third Book.

Epift. 1. To Robert Earl of Oxford.
Epift. 2. To Mr. Secretary Craggs.
Epift. 3. To Mr. Addifon.
Epift. 4. To Mr. Jervas.
Epift. 5. To Mifs Blount.
Epift. 6. To the fame.
Epift. 7. To Dr. Arbuthnot.

SATIRES OF HORACE imitated.
Satires of Dr. DONNE verfified.
EPITAPHS.

VOL. III.

The TEMPLE of FAME, a Vision, imitated from Chaucer.

TRANSLATION S.

January and May, from Chaucer.
The Wife of Bath, from Chaucer.
The first Book of Statius his Thebais.
Sapho to Phaon, from Ovid.

The Fable of Dryope, from Ovid.

Vertumnus and Pomona, from Ovid.

VOL. IV.

The DUNCIA D, an Heroic Poem, in three

books, to Dr. Jonathan Swift.