The works of Mr. Alexander Pope. To which are added, I. Cooper’s-Hill. By Sir John Denham. II. An Essay on Translated Verse... [ESTC T5394]

DMI number:

671

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’The works of Mr. Alexander Pope.’, London, 1717.

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Grierson's 1718 volume reprints the contents.

'The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope,', Dublin, 1718.

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Evidence:

A reprint, with additions, of Grierson's 1718 volume.

Publication Date:

1727

ESTC number:

T5394

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW111250261

Shelfmark:

BOD Vet.A4 e.2580

Full Title:

THE | [red]WORKS[/red] | OF | Mr. [red][i]ALEXANDER POPE.[/i][/red] | [rule] | To which are added, | [rule] | I. [red]COOPER'[i]s[i]-HILL.[/red] By Sir [i]John Denham.[/i] | II. An [red]ESSAY[/red] on [red]TRANSLATED VERSE.[/red] And, | III. A Translation of [red]HORACE'[i]s[/i] ART[/red] of [red]POETRY.[/red] | By the Earl of [i]Roscommon.[/i] | IV. An [red]ESSAY[/red] on [red]POETRY.[/red] By the Duke of | [i]Buckingham.[/i] | V. An [red]ODE[/red] to the [red]CREATOR[/red] of the [red]WORLD.[/red] | VI. [red]ALEXANDER'[i]s[/i]-FEAST;[/red] or, the [i]Power[/i] of [i]Mu- | sick.[/i] An Ode in honour of St. [i]Cecilia[/i]'s Day. By | Mr. [i]Dryden[/i]. | VII. A Poem on the [red]PROSPECT[/red] of [red]PEACE.[/red] By | Mr. [i]Tickell.[/i] | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | [red]DUBLIN:[/red] | Printed by and for [red]GEORGE GRIERSON,[/red] at the | Two Bibles in [i]Essex-Street.[/i] [red]M,DCC,CCVII.[/red]

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(IN ADDITIONAL TITLE PAGE) [i]Haec studia adolescentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant; | secundas resornant, adversis perfugium & solatium | praebent; delectant domi, nonimpediunt foris; per- | noctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur.[/i] | CICERO pro ARCH.

Place of Publication:

Dublin

Genres:

Miscellany dominated by poet

Format:

Octavo

Pagination:

[4] [i-iii] iv-xxv [1] [1-2] 3-401 [1]

Bibliographic details:

Separate title page p.[235]: [ornamental rule] | MISCELLANIES | ON SEVERAL | OCCASIONS. | [ornamental rule] Separate title page p.[287]: [i]Select[/i] POEMS, | BY | Some of the most celebra- | ted WITS of the AGE. | Several of which, were never be- | fore publish'd in any COLLECTION. | [rule] | [i]Perpetua semper dignissima vita.[/i] | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | [i]DUBLIN:[/i] | Printed by and for [i]George Grierson[/i], at | the [i]Two-Bibles[/i] in [i]Essex-street[/i], 1727. Separate poem title pages: 'Pastorals, With A Discourse on Pastoral' p.[1]; 'Windsor-Forest' p.[33]; 'An Essay on Criticism' p.[49]; 'The Rape of the Lock' p.[77]; 'The Temple of Fame' p.[109]; 'January and May' p.[129]; 'The Wife of Bath Her Prologue' p.[157]; 'Sapho to Phaon' p.[173]; 'The First Book of Statius his Thebais' p.[193]; 'Part of the Thirteenth Book of Homer's Odysses' p.[223] 'Eloisa to Abelard' p.[263]; 'Cooper's-Hill' p.[289]; 'An Essay on Translated Verse' p.[303]; 'Horace's Art of Poetry' p.[323]; 'An Essay on Poetry' p.[349]; 'An Ode to the Creator of the World' p.[363]; 'Alexander's Feast' p.[373]; 'A Poem on the Prospect of Peace' p.[383]. Other comments: Latin verse and English prose translation pp.29-32.

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ADDITIONAL TITLE PAGE: THE | [red]WORKS[/red] | OF | Mr. [red][i]ALEXANDER POPE.[/i][/red] | According | To the [i]London[/i] Folio Edition. | [rule] | The [red]SECOND EDITION:[/red] | [rule] | To which are Added, | Several New [red]POEMS[/red] since publish'd | by the [red]AUTHOR[/red] | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | [red][i]DUBLIN[/i]:[/red] | Printed by and for [red]GEORGE GRIERSON,[/red] at the | [i]two Bibles[/i] in [i]Essex-Street.[/i] [red]M, DCC, XXVII.[/red] Mispaginations: 46-47 misprinted as 44-45; 51 as 49;54-55 as 52-53; 401 as 361

Other matter:

PREFATORY MATERIAL: Table of Contents pp.[i-ii]; Preface pp.[iii]-xi; Poems in praise of Pope pp.xii-xxv.

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Publisher:

George Grierson

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'Printed by and for George Grierson, at the Two Bibles in Essex-Street' (Dublin) T5394

Content/Publication

First Line:

What beckoning ghost along the moonlight shade

Page No:

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In these more dull as more censorious days

Page No:

xiv-xvi

Poem Title:

To Mr. Pope on his Pastorals.

Attribution:

By Mr. Wycherley

Attributed To:

William Wycherley

First Line:

To praise and still with just respect to praise

Page No:

p.xxi-xxiv

Poem Title:

To Mr. Pope.

Attribution:

(signed) T. Parnell.

Attributed To:

Thomas Parnell

First Line:

He comes he comes bid every bard prepare

Page No:

xxiv-xxv

Poem Title:

To Mr. Pope, on the publishing his Works.

Attribution:

(signed) Simon Harcourt.

Attributed To:

Simon Harcourt

First Line:

With age decayed with courts and business tired

Page No:

xii-xiii

Poem Title:

On Mr. Pope and his Poems,

Attribution:

By His Grace John Sheffield Duke of Buckingham.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Hail sacred bard a muse unknown before

Page No:

xvi-xx

Poem Title:

To Mr. Pope on his Windsor-Forest.

Attribution:

(signed) Fr. Knapp.

Attributed To:

Francis Knapp

First Line:

When Phoebus and the nine harmonious maids

Page No:

xx-xxi

Poem Title:

To Mr. Pope. In Imitation of a Greek Epigram on Homer.

Attribution:

(signed) E. Fenton.

Attributed To:

Elijah Fenton

First Line:

The muse of every heavenly gift allowed

Page No:

xiii-xiv

Poem Title:

To Mr. Pope

Attribution:

By the Right Honourable Anne Countess of Winchelsea.

Attributed To:

Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]

First Line:

First in these fields I try the sylvan strains

Page No:

p.9-12

Poem Title:

Spring. The First Pastoral. To Sir William Trumbal

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

A faithful swain whom love had taught to sing

Page No:

p.13-16

Poem Title:

Summer. The Second Pastoral. To Dr. Garth

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Beneath the shade a spreading beech displays

Page No:

p.16-19

Poem Title:

Autumn. The Third Pastoral. To Mr. Wycherley

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Thyrsis the music of that murmuring spring

Page No:

p.20-23

Poem Title:

Winter. The Fourth Pastoral. To the Memory of Mrs. Tempest.

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Ye nymphs of Solyma begin the song

Page No:

p.24-28

Poem Title:

Messiah. A Sacred Eclogue. In Imitation of Virgil's Pollio.

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Thy forests Windsor and thy green retreats

Page No:

p.35-48

Poem Title:

Windsor-Forest.

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Tis hard to say if greater want of skill

Page No:

p.49[i.e. 51]-75

Poem Title:

An Essay on Criticism.

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

What dire offence from amorous causes springs

Page No:

p.81-108

Poem Title:

The Rape of the Lock.

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

In that soft season when descending showers

Page No:

p.111-127

Poem Title:

The Temple of Fame.

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

There lived in Lombardy as authors write

Page No:

p.131-156

Poem Title:

January and May.

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Behold the woes of matrimonial life

Page No:

p.159-172

Poem Title:

The Wife of Bath. From Chaucer.

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Say lovely youth that dost my heart command

Page No:

p.175-182

Poem Title:

Sapho to Phaon.

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

The fair Pomona flourished in his reign

Page No:

p.183-187

Poem Title:

Vertumnus and Pomona: From the Fourteenth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

She said and for her lost Galanthis sighs

Page No:

p.188-191

Poem Title:

The Fable of Dryope. From the Ninth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Fraternal rage the guilty Thebes alarms

Page No:

p.195-221

Poem Title:

The First Book of Statius his Thebais.

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

The sun descending the Phoeacian train

Page No:

p.225-232

Poem Title:

Part of the Thirteenth Book of Homer's Odysses.

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Close to the gates a spacious garden lies

Page No:

p.233-234

Poem Title:

The Gardens of Alcinous. From the Seventh Book of Homer's Odysses.

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Descend ye nine descend and sing

Page No:

p.237-241

Poem Title:

Ode for Musick on St. Cecilia's Day.

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Ye shades where sacred truth is sought

Page No:

p.242-243

Poem Title:

Two Chorus's to the Tragedy of Brutus, not yet publick.

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Oh tyrant love hast thou possessed

Page No:

p.243-245

Poem Title:

Two Chorus's to the Tragedy of Brutus, not yet publick.

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

This verse be thine my friend nor thou refuse

Page No:

pp.248-250

Poem Title:

To Mr. Jervas, with Fresnoy's Art o Painting, Translated by Mr. Dryden.

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

In these gay thoughts the loves and graces shine

Page No:

p.250-253

Poem Title:

To a Young Lady, with the Works of Voiture.

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

As some fond virgin whom her mother's care

Page No:

p.253-255

Poem Title:

To the same, On her leaving the Town after the Coronation.

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Come gentle air the Aeolian shepherd said

Page No:

p.255

Poem Title:

On a Fan of the Author's design, in which was painted the story of Cephalus and Procris, with the Motto, Aura veni.

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Silence coeval with eternity

Page No:

p.256-258

Poem Title:

On Silence, In Imitation of the Style of the late Earl of Rochester.

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

A pleasing form a firm yet cautious mind

Page No:

p.258

Poem Title:

'Epitaph.'

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art

Page No:

p.259-260

Poem Title:

Prologue to Mr. Addison's Tragedy of Cato.

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Prodigious this the frail one of our play

Page No:

p.260-262

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Jane Shore, Design'd for Mrs. Oldfield.

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Muse 'tis enough at length thy labour ends

Page No:

p.262

Poem Title:

Occasion'd by some Verses of his Grace the Duke of Buckingham.

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

In these deep solitudes and awful cells

Page No:

p.265-276

Poem Title:

Eloisa to Abelard.

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Be gone ye critics and restrain your spite

Page No:

p.277-278

Poem Title:

To the Author of a Poem, Entituled, Successio.

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Thy relics Rowe to this fair shrine we trust

Page No:

p.279

Poem Title:

Epitaph Design'd for Mr. Rowe in Westminster-Abbey.

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

See the wild waste of all-devouring years

Page No:

p.280-282

Poem Title:

Verses Occasion'd by Mr. Addison's Treatise of Medals.

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Such were the notes thy once-loved poet sung

Page No:

p.283-284

Poem Title:

Dedication to Dr. Parnell's Poems. To the Right Honourable Robert, Earl of Oxford, and Earl Mortimer.

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

To this sad shrine whoever thou art draw near

Page No:

p.285

Poem Title:

Epitaph on Mr. Harcourt, Son to the Lord Harcourt.

Attribution:

Mr. Alexander Pope (title page)

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Sure there are poets which did never dream

Page No:

p.291-302

Poem Title:

Cooper's-Hill.

Attribution:

By Sir John Denham (table of contents)

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Whether the fruitful Nile or Tyrian shore

Page No:

p.305-308

Poem Title:

To the Earl of Roscommon, On his Excellent Essay on Translated Verse.

Attribution:

John Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Happy the author whose correct essay

Page No:

p.309-321

Poem Title:

An Essay On Translated Verse.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Roscommon.

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Rome was not better by her Horace taught

Page No:

p.327-329

Poem Title:

Of This Translation, And of the Use of Poetry.

Attribution:

By Edm. Waller, Esq;

Attributed To:

Edmund Waller

First Line:

If in a picture Piso you should see

Page No:

p.331-347

Poem Title:

Horace, of the Art of Poetry.

Attribution:

Made English by the Right Honourable The Earl of Roscommon.

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Of things in which mankind does most excel

Page No:

p.351-362

Poem Title:

An Essay on Poetry.

Attribution:

By the Right Honourable The Earl of Mulgrave.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

O muse unfeigned o true celestial fire

Page No:

p.367-372

Poem Title:

An Ode to the Creator of the World. Occasion'd by the Fragments of Orpheus.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Twas at the royal feast for Persia won

Page No:

p.375-381

Poem Title:

Alexander's Feast; or the Power of Musick. An Ode, In Honour of St. Cecilia's Day.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden (table of contents)

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Contending kings and fields of death too long

Page No:

p.385-386

Poem Title:

To the Lord Privy-Seal.

Attribution:

By Mr. Tickell (in following poem which this prefaces)

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

The haughty Gaul in ten campaigns overthrown

Page No:

p.387-361 [i.e.401]

Poem Title:

A Poem on the Prospect of Peace.

Attribution:

By Mr. Tickell.

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell