THE

WORKS

OF

ALEXANDER POPE, Esq.

IN VERSE AND PROSE.

WITH

A SELECTION OF EXPLANATORY NOTES,

AND

THE ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE

BY DR. JOHNSON.

IN EIGHT VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

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CONTENTS

OF

THE THIRD VOLUME.

ESSAY ON MAN, in FOUR EPISTLES:

Page

5

25

41

57

EPISTLE I. Of the Nature and State of Man with

respect to the Universe

EPISTLE II. Of the Nature and State of Man with

respect to Himself, as an Individual

EPISTLE III. Of the Nature and State of Man with

respect to Society

EPISTLE IV. Of the Nature and State of Man with

respect to Happiness

THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER

MORAL ESSAYS:

EPISTLE I. Of the Knowledge and Characters of

MEN

·

EPISTLE II. Of the Characters of WOMEN

EPISTLE III. Of the Use of RICHES

EPISTLE IV. Of the Use of RICHES

EPISTLE V. To Mr.Addison, occasioned by his

Dialogues on MEDALS

ΙΟΙ

SATIRES AND EPISTLES:

PROLOGUE to the SATIRES, in an Epistle to

Dr. ARBUTHNOT

SATIRES and EPISTLES of HORACE imitated:

SATIRES of Horace, Book II. Sat. I.

Sat. II.

Page

157

185

193

EPISTLES of Horace, Book I. Ep. I.

-

On receiving from the Right Honourable the Lady

FRANCES SHIRLEY, a Standish and two Pens

A Fragment of an unpublished Satire of Pope, intitled

One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty

309

- 311

IMITATIONS of HORACE:

323

The First Book of the Epistles of Horace, Ep. VII. 319

The Second Book of the Satires of Horace, Sat. VI.

The Fourth Book of Horace, Ode I.

The Fourth Book of Horace, Ode IX. A Frag-

ment

333

337