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CONTENTS.
PREFATORY MEMOIR....
PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1716.......
JUVENILE POEMS:
Spring
Summer.
A Discourse on Pastoral Poetry..
Autumn..
Winter..
ESSAY ON CRITICISM.
THE RAPE OF THE LOCK.....
MESSIAH: A SACRED ECLOGUE.
ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF AN UNFORTU-
NATE LADY................
PROLOGUE TO MR. ADDISON'S TRAGEDY OF
CATO.....
EPILOGUE TO MR. ROWE'S JANE SHORE..........
WINDSOR FOREST...
ELOÏSA TO ABELARD.
THE DUNCIAD:
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Preface Prefixed to the Five First Editions of the
Dunciad.
Book I..
Book II...
Book III..
Book IV....
AN ESSAY ON MAN:
Epistle I..
Epistle II..
Epistle III..
Epistle IV.
THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER.
MORAL ESSAYS:
Epistle II.
Epistle III.
Epistle V.....
SATIRES:
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot...
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Second Book of Horace.-Satire I. To Mr. Fortescue. 277
Second Book of Horace.-Satire II. To Mr. Bethel. 282
First Book of Horace.-Epistle I. To Lord Boling-
broke..
287
First Book of Horace.-Epistle VI. To Mr. Murray. 292
Second Book of Horace.-Epistle I. To Augustus. 296
Second Book of Horace.-Epistle II..
Epilogue to the Satires. Dialogue I.
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Dialogue II...
324
EPITAPHS:
EPISTLES:
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Epistle to Robert, Earl of Oxford and Mortimer.... 333
Epistle to James Craggs, Esq..
Epistle to Mr. Jervas.
Epistle to Miss Blount..
Epistle to the Same...
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On Charles Earl of Dorset..
On Sir William Trumbull..
On the Hon. Simon Harcourt..
On James Craggs, Esq.
Intended for Mr. Rowe..
On Rowe.
On Mrs. Corbet..
On the Monument of the Hon. Robert Digby, and of
his Sister Mary...
On Sir Godfrey Kneller.
On General Henry Withers..
On Mr. Elijah Fenton...
On Mr. Gay..
Another.
Intended for Sir Isaac Newton.
On Dr. Francis Atterbury..
On Edmund Duke of Buckingham.
For One who would not be Buried in Westminster
Abbey....
Another, on the Same...
Lord Coningsby's Epitaph..
Dn Butler's Monument...
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS:
Ddech St. Cecilia's Day...
Two Chofuses to the Tragedy of Brutus:
Chorus of Athenians...
Chorus of Youths and Virgins.
Ode, on Solitude..
The Dying Christian to his Soul..
To the Author of a Poem entitled Successio..
Argus..
To Henry Cromwell, Esq.
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS-continued.
A Farewell to London in 1715.....
The Basset-Table......
To Lady Mary Wortley Montagu...
Extemporaneous Lines, on the Picture of Lady Mary
W. Montagu...
Epigram....
On a certain Lady at Court..
To Mr. Gay...
Prologue Designed for Mr. D'Urfey's last Play..
A Prologue by Mr. Pope..
Macer: a Character..
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On his Grotto at Twickenham..
Impromptu to Lady Winchilsea.
To Mr. John Moore...
The Looking-Glass.
374
Lines Sung by Durastanti when she Took Leave of
the English Stage...
Occasioned by some Verses of his Grace the Duke
of Buckingham..
On Mrs. Tofts...
Answer to the following Question of Miss Howe-
What is Prudery?..
Umbra.
Verbatim from Boileau...
The Challenge.
To Mrs. Martha Blount on her Birthday.
Lines to Windsor Forest..
The Three Gentle Shepherds..
Verses to Dr. Bolton...
To Mr. Thomas Southern.
Sandys's Ghost; or, a Proper New Ballad on the
New Ovid's Metamorphoses..
Epigram......
Epitaphs on John Hughes and Sarah Drew.
On a Picture of Queen Caroline..
On the Countess of Burlington Cutting Paper.
On an Old Gate at Chiswick..
Song.
Upon the Duke of Marlborough's House at Wood-
stock..
Epigram to Lord Radnor..
Verses left by Mr. Pope..
Verses to Mr. Craggs......
Epigram..
Grildrig
To Mr. Lemuel Gulliver..
Lines on Swift's Ancestors.
To Quinbus Flestrin, the Man-Mountain.
On certain Ladies.
The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch for the Loss of
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