The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

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VARIATIONS.ODE ON ST CECILIA'S DAY,TWO CHORUSES TO THE TRAGEDY OF BRUTUS.TO THE AUTHOR OF A POEM ENTITLED SUCCESSIO.55 ODE ON SOLITUDE.56 THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL.57 ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF AN UNFORTUNATE LADY58 PROLOGUE TO MR ADDISON'S TRAGEDY OF CATO.IMITATIONS OF ENGLISH POETS.60 I. CHAUCER.II. SPENSER.III. WALLER.ON A FAN OF THE AUTHOR'S DESIGN,IV. COWLEY.WEEPING.V. EARL OF ROCHESTER.VI. EARL OF DORSET.VII. DR SWIFT.THE TEMPLE OF FAME.ELOISA TO ABELARD.EPISTLE TO ROBERT EARL OF OXFORD AND EARL MORTIMER.68 EPISTLE TO JAMES CRAGGS, ESQ., SECRETARY OF STATE.69 EPISTLE TO MR JERVAS, WITH MR DRYDEN'S TRANSLATION OF FRESNOY'S 'ART OF PAINTING.'EPISTLE TO MISS BLOUNT, WITH THE WORKS OF VOITURE.72 EPISTLE TO MRS TERESA BLOUNT. ON HER LEAVING THE TOWN AFTER THE CORONATION.74 TO MRS M. B.75 ON HER BIRTHDAY.TO MR THOMAS SOUTHERN,76 ON HIS BIRTHDAY, 1742.VARIATION.TO MR JOHN MOORE, AUTHOR OF THE CELEBRATED WORM-POWDER.TO MR C.,80 ST JAMES'S PLACE.EPITAPHS.AN ESSAY ON MAN: IN FOUR EPISTLES TO HENRY ST JOHN, LORD BOLINGBROKE.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.EPISTLE TO DR ARBUTHNOT; OR, PROLOGUE TO THE SATIRES.SATIRES AND EPISTLES OF HORACE IMITATED.THE FIRST EPISTLE OF THE SECOND BOOK OF HORACE.TO AUGUSTUS.142 THE SECOND EPISTLE OF THE SECOND BOOK OF HORACE.

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PART OF THE NINTH ODE OF THE FOURTH BOOK.THE SATIRES OF DR JOHN DONNE, DEAN OF ST PAUL'S,171 VERSIFIED.EPILOGUE177 TO THE SATIRES. IN TWO DIALOGUES. (WRITTEN IN MDCCXXXVIII.)FOOTNOTES:

VER. 29, 30—Originally thus in the MS.— 'Tis done, and Nature's changed since you are gone; Behold, the clouds have put their mourning on. VER. 83, 84. Originally thus in the MS.— While vapours rise, and driving snows descend, Thy honour, name, and praise shall never end.

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