Memoirs of the life and writings of Alexander Pope, esq. [ESTC T88302]
- DMI number:
- 777
- Publication Date:
- 1745
- ESTC number:
- T88302
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW101114797
- Shelfmark:
- BOD 8A St. Amand 267
- Full Title:
- MEMOIRS | OF THE | LIFE and WRITINGS | OF | [i]Alexander Pope[/i], Esq; | Faithfully Collected from | Authentic AUTHORS, Original MANU- | SCRIPTS, and the TESTIMONIES of | many PERSONS of Credit and Honour: | WITH | CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS. | Adorned with the | HEADS of divers ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONS, | treated of in these MEMOIRS, curiously | engrav'd by the best Hands. | VOL. II. | [rule] | By WILLIAM AYRE, [i]Esq[/i]; | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed by his MAJESTY'S AUTHORITY, | For the AUTHOR, and Sold by the Book- | sellers of [i]London[/i] and [i]Westminster[/i]. | [rule] | MDCCXLV.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of extracts/snippets, Miscellany dominated by poet, and Collection including prose
- Format:
- Octavo
- Comments:
- Miscellaneous prose Italian verse (followed by English translation), pp. 140, 173-74, 175-76, 178-79
- Other matter:
- Royal Patent signed by Holles Newcastle [2pp.]; dedication to Lords Bolingbroke, Burlington, Marchmont, and Bathurst, signed William Ayre [1p.]; directions to the binder and errata [1p.]
- Editor:
- William Ayre
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- I have his letters of a modern date
- Page No:
- p.4
- Poem Title:
- Act I. Scene I.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ambition sighed she found it vain to trust
- Page No:
- pp.19-20
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Statesman yet friend to truth of soul sincere
- Page No:
- p.19
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- A. POPE
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Yet should the graces all thy figures place
- Page No:
- p.25
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Yes you despise the man to books confined
- Page No:
- p.26
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Behold if fortune or a mistress frowns
- Page No:
- p.27
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Not therefore humble he who seeks retreat
- Page No:
- p.27
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn
- Page No:
- p.28
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- And you brave Cobham to the latest breath
- Page No:
- p.29
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- I give and devise old Euclio said
- Page No:
- p.29
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- As some fond virgin whom her mother's care
- Page No:
- pp.31-33
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- What is prudery tis a beldam
- Page No:
- p.49
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Yet spare the dead and at the utmost dare
- Page No:
- p.53
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- But I must write or burst my gall overflows
- Page No:
- p.54
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- And yet believe me good as well as ill
- Page No:
- pp.54-55
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- But when by man's audacious labour won
- Page No:
- p.59
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- His grace will game to White's a bull be led
- Page No:
- pp.62-63
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Bond damns the poor and hates them from his heart
- Page No:
- pp.63-64
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- But all our praises why should lords engross
- Page No:
- pp.65-66
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Where London's column pointing at the skies
- Page No:
- pp.67-69
- Poem Title:
- this Epistle to the Lord Bathurst
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- At Timon's villa let us pass a day
- Page No:
- pp.70-72
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Such were the wags who boldly did adventure
- Page No:
- p.80
- Poem Title:
- Prologue to the Sultaness
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Is there a parson much bemused in beer
- Page No:
- p.81
- Poem Title:
- Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
- Attribution:
- "our Author"
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whom have I hurt has poet yet or peer
- Page No:
- pp.81-82
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The bard who pilfered pastoral's renown
- Page No:
- p.89
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Timely blossom infant fair
- Page No:
- pp.90-91
- Poem Title:
- To Miss Charlotte Pulteney, in her Mother's Arms.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dimply damsel sweetly smiling
- Page No:
- p.91
- Poem Title:
- To Miss Peggy Pulteney, in the Nursery.
- Attribution:
- "this gentleman"
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To sing of shepherds and of shepherdesses
- Page No:
- p.92
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Triumphant leaders at an army's head
- Page No:
- p.92
- Poem Title:
- [No Title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- How finished with illustrious toil appears
- Page No:
- pp.94-95
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Like mortal man great Jove grown fond of change
- Page No:
- pp.98-101
- Poem Title:
- Trivia, or, the Art of Walking the Streets.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Gay
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- In Paris there's a race of animals
- Page No:
- pp.106-108
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Gay
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- When eastern lovers feed the funeral fire
- Page No:
- p.110
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- With scornful mien and various toss of air
- Page No:
- pp.114-115
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Through all the employments of life
- Page No:
- p.115
- Poem Title:
- The Song of Peeachum, the Thief-Catcher.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Life is a jest and all things show it
- Page No:
- p.123
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Of manners gentle of affections mild
- Page No:
- p.123
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As a fair nymph when rising from her bed
- Page No:
- p.127
- Poem Title:
- Art of Poetry
- Attribution:
- Mr. Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Mother quoth she let not the poultry need
- Page No:
- p.132
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Ye gentle muses leave your crystal spring
- Page No:
- pp.132-134
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Can we forget how every creature moaned
- Page No:
- pp.134-135
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- In prose section before poem: "Give Attention, Reader, to his Attempt"
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Breathe soft ye winds ye waters gently flow
- Page No:
- p.136
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Unhappy Colinet what boots thee now
- Page No:
- pp.136-138
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Philips
- Attributed To:
- Ambrose Philips
- First Line:
- Mild as a lamb and harmless as a dove
- Page No:
- p.137
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Philips
- Attributed To:
- Ambrose Philips
- First Line:
- My Blouzelinda is the blithest lass
- Page No:
- pp.138-139
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Gay
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- All nature mourns the skies relent in showers
- Page No:
- p.138
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Ah Amarillis far more beautiful
- Page No:
- p.140
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Patie to me is dearer than my breath
- Page No:
- pp.141-142
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Allan Ramsay
- Attributed To:
- Allan Ramsay
- First Line:
- Ah well a day how long must I endure
- Page No:
- pp.142-144
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Philips
- Attributed To:
- Ambrose Philips
- First Line:
- That flute is mine which Colin's tuneful breath
- Page No:
- pp.144-145
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Come night as dark as pitch surround my head
- Page No:
- pp.146-147
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Gay
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- Oh I have heard the waves and senseless stones
- Page No:
- pp.147-148
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- This funny morning Roger cheers my blood
- Page No:
- p.149
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Ramsay
- Attributed To:
- Allan Ramsay
- First Line:
- Oh my Mirtillo if within my breast
- Page No:
- pp.151-152
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- All my hard fate me Mopsus did foretell
- Page No:
- p.157
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Resound ye hills resound my mournful lay
- Page No:
- p.158
- Poem Title:
- "third pastoral"
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sure thou in some ill chosen hour was born
- Page No:
- pp.159-160
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Philips
- Attributed To:
- Ambrose Philips
- First Line:
- Last Friday's eve when as the sun was set
- Page No:
- pp.160-161
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Gay
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- Oh Peggy sweeter than the dawning day
- Page No:
- pp.161-162
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Allan Ramsay
- Attributed To:
- Allan Ramsay
- First Line:
- Here where primroses thickest paint the green
- Page No:
- pp.164-166
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Allan Ramsay
- Attributed To:
- Allan Ramsay
- First Line:
- But we'll grow auld together and never find
- Page No:
- p.167
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Ramsay
- Attributed To:
- Allan Ramsay
- First Line:
- Speak on speak ever thus and still my grief
- Page No:
- pp.167-168
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- "the same gentleman"
- Attributed To:
- Allan Ramsay
- First Line:
- Tigers lions beasts of prey
- Page No:
- pp.169-168
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Foolish deaf to all advice
- Page No:
- pp.170-172
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What can that avail
- Page No:
- p.172
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Oh say what answer eyes alone can make
- Page No:
- p.173
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tell me O Silvio now the season smiles
- Page No:
- p.174-175
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Happy the shepherdess who some coarse stuff
- Page No:
- pp.176-177
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How often does the want of eyes give sight
- Page No:
- p.179
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When shepherds flourished in Eliza's reign
- Page No:
- pp.181-183
- Poem Title:
- "Fifth Pastoral"
- Attribution:
- Mr. Philips
- Attributed To:
- Ambrose Philips
- First Line:
- Of nature's laws his carols first begun
- Page No:
- pp.184-185
- Poem Title:
- The Flights
- Attribution:
- Mr. Gay
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- Resound ye hills resound my mournful strains
- Page No:
- p.184
- Poem Title:
- "the third Pastoral"
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- For Venus had never seen bedded
- Page No:
- p.186
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Let Sporus tremble - What that thing of silk
- Page No:
- p.187
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- What walls can guard me or what shades can hide
- Page No:
- p.189
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In beauty or wit
- Page No:
- pp.193-194
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In this impartial glass my muse intends
- Page No:
- p.196
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope [in body of text, p. 195]
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- What armed for virtue when I point the pen
- Page No:
- p.196
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope [in body of text p. 195]
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Thine is but such an image of his pen
- Page No:
- pp.197-198
- Poem Title:
- Verses address'd to the Imitator, of the First Satire of the Second Book of Horace
- Attribution:
- By a Lady
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When God created thee one would believe
- Page No:
- p.198
- Poem Title:
- Verses address'd to the Imitator, of the first Satire of the Second Book of Horace
- Attribution:
- By a Lady
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fortune not much of humbling me can boast
- Page No:
- pp.200-201
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Now hear what blessings temperance can bring
- Page No:
- p.200
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Oh impudence of wealth with all thy store
- Page No:
- p.200
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- He names me and comes to me I whisper God
- Page No:
- pp.204-210
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Dr. Donne
- Attributed To:
- John Donne
- First Line:
- He spies me out I whisper gracious God
- Page No:
- pp.205-212
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Hope humbly then with trembling pinions soar
- Page No:
- p.213
- Poem Title:
- Essay on Man
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Thus nature gives us let it check our pride
- Page No:
- p.215
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whatever is is right
- Page No:
- p.215
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- To this sad shrine whoever thou art draw near
- Page No:
- p.218
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- This modest stone what but few vain marbles can
- Page No:
- p.219
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- I would not see my country sold abroad
- Page No:
- pp.222-226
- Poem Title:
- Fulvius - Probus.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Much less must that have any place
- Page No:
- p.227
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Abraham Cowley
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Beneath her footstool science groans in chains
- Page No:
- p.232
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- When lo a harlot form soft gliding by
- Page No:
- p.233
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Soon ah soon rebellion will commence
- Page No:
- p.234
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- While lo a spectre rose whose index hand
- Page No:
- p.235
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Whatever the talents or however designed
- Page No:
- p.236
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Intrepid then over seas and lands he flew
- Page No:
- pp.237-238
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Saw a lazy lolling sort
- Page No:
- p.239
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Annius crafty seer with ebon wand
- Page No:
- p.240
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- The first thus opened hear thy suppliant's call
- Page No:
- p.241
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- My sons she answered both have done your parts
- Page No:
- pp.242-243
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- With innocence of mien
- Page No:
- p.242
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Then blessing all go children of my care
- Page No:
- p.244
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Which whoso tastes forgets his former friends
- Page No:
- p.244
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- She yawned all nature nods
- Page No:
- p.245
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Oh cried the goddess for some pedant reign
- Page No:
- pp.246-247
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- There marched the bard and blockhead side by side
- Page No:
- p.246
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Next bidding all draw near on bended knees
- Page No:
- pp.150-151 [ie. 250-51]
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Two fathers joined to rob my claim of one
- Page No:
- pp.286-287
- Poem Title:
- the Volunteer Laureat.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Savage
- Attributed To:
- Richard Savage
- First Line:
- Through misery leads to fortitude and truth
- Page No:
- p.287
- Poem Title:
- The Wanderer.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Savage
- Attributed To:
- Richard Savage
- First Line:
- Deluded mortals whom the great
- Page No:
- pp.290-295
- Poem Title:
- Verses to Dr. Delany, occasioned by his Epistle to his Excellency, John Lord Carteret.
- Attribution:
- Dean Swift
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- Two seaport cities mark Britannia's fame
- Page No:
- pp.302-305
- Poem Title:
- London and Bristol delineated
- Attribution:
- Mr. Savage
- Attributed To:
- Richard Savage
- First Line:
- Of man what see we but his station here
- Page No:
- p.310
- Poem Title:
- Ethicks
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Some few whose lamp shone brighter have been led
- Page No:
- pp.312-313
- Poem Title:
- Religio Laici
- Attribution:
- Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- In reasoning pride my friend our error lies
- Page No:
- pp.313-314
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- All are but parts of one stupendous whole
- Page No:
- p.315
- Poem Title:
- Ethick essays
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- What future bliss he gives not thee to know
- Page No:
- p.316
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- For him alone hope leads from goal to goal
- Page No:
- p.317
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Such is the world's great harmony that springs
- Page No:
- p.318
- Poem Title:
- Ep. iii.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- God is that spring of good supreme and best
- Page No:
- pp.319-320
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- But errs not nature from this gracious end
- Page No:
- p.320
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- A being darkly wise and rudely great
- Page No:
- p.323
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Go wondrous creature mount where science guides
- Page No:
- pp.323-324
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Superior beings when of late they saw
- Page No:
- pp.325-326
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Two principles in human nature reign
- Page No:
- p.326
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes
- Page No:
- pp.327-328
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- See anger zeal and fortitude supply
- Page No:
- p.331
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Tis thus the mercury of man is fixed
- Page No:
- p.331
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- That if the Gentiles whom no law inspired
- Page No:
- p.332
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- That counterworks each folly and caprice
- Page No:
- p.333
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Vice is a monster of so frightful mien
- Page No:
- p.333
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Wants frailties passions closer still ally
- Page No:
- p.334
- Poem Title:
- Epistle
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Opinion gilds with varying rays
- Page No:
- p.335
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- The learned are happy nature to explore
- Page No:
- p.336
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- See matter next with various life endued
- Page No:
- p.338
- Poem Title:
- The Third Ethick Epistle
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Grant that the powerful still the weak control
- Page No:
- p.340
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Whatever of life all quickening aether keeps
- Page No:
- pp.340-341
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- With choice we fix with sympathy we burn
- Page No:
- pp.341-342
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- See him from nature rising slow to art
- Page No:
- p.343
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Till then by nature crowned each patriarch sat
- Page No:
- p.344
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Who first taught souls enslaved and realms undone
- Page No:
- pp.344-345
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- In times overgrown with rust and ignorance
- Page No:
- pp.346-347
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- For what one likes if others like as well
- Page No:
- p.347
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Twas then the studious head or generous mind
- Page No:
- p.348
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- For forms of government let fools contest
- Page No:
- p.349
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- More powerful each as needful to the rest
- Page No:
- p.349
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Taught power's due use to people and to kings
- Page No:
- p.351
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- For him alone hope leads from goal to goal
- Page No:
- p.352
- Poem Title:
- fourth Epistle
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- On their own axis as the planets run
- Page No:
- p.353
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Where grows - where grows it not - if vain our toil
- Page No:
- p.353
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Ask of the learned the way the learned are blind
- Page No:
- p.354
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Fair opening to some courts propitious shine
- Page No:
- p.354
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Remember Man the universal cause
- Page No:
- p.355
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- There's not a blessing individuals find
- Page No:
- p.355
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Heaven to mankind impartial we confess
- Page No:
- p.356
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- But least of all could their endeavours find
- Page No:
- p.357
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Fortune her gifts may variously dispose
- Page No:
- p.357
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Know all the good that individuals find
- Page No:
- p.358
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- But fools the good alone unhappy call
- Page No:
- p.359
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Oh blind to truth and God's whole scheme below
- Page No:
- p.359
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- We just as wisely might of heaven complain
- Page No:
- p.360
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- What makes all physical or moral ill
- Page No:
- p.360
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- But still this world so fitted for the knave
- Page No:
- p.361
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Shall burning Aetna if a sage requires
- Page No:
- p.361
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- The good must merit God's peculiar care
- Page No:
- p.362
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- This world tis true
- Page No:
- p.362
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- But sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed
- Page No:
- pp.364-365
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- The grave Sir Gilbert holds it for a rule
- Page No:
- pp.365-366
- Poem Title:
- Of the Use of Riches
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- O fool to think God hates the worthy mind
- Page No:
- p.366
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Go if your ancient but ignoble blood
- Page No:
- p.367
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Grant that those can conquer these can cheat
- Page No:
- p.367
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Who noble ends by noble means obtains
- Page No:
- p.367
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- In parts superior what advantage lies
- Page No:
- p.368
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- How much of other each is sure to cost
- Page No:
- p.369
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- If all united thy ambition call
- Page No:
- pp.369-370
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Yet poor with fortune and with learning blind
- Page No:
- pp.370-371
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- You'll find if once the monarch acts as the monk
- Page No:
- p.370
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Self-love thus pushed to social to divine
- Page No:
- p.371
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Come then my friend my genius come along
- Page No:
- p.372
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake
- Page No:
- p.372
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- O while along the stream of time thy name
- Page No:
- p.373
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Showed erring pride whatever is is right
- Page No:
- p.373
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Teach me like thee in various nature wise
- Page No:
- p.373
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- When statesmen heroes kings in dust repose
- Page No:
- p.373
- Poem Title:
- [No Title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Father of all in every age
- Page No:
- p.375
- Poem Title:
- DEO OPT. MAX.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Thou first great cause least understood
- Page No:
- p.375
- Poem Title:
- DEO OPT. MAX.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- What blessings thy free bounty gives
- Page No:
- p.376
- Poem Title:
- DEO OPT. MAX.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- What conscience dictates to be done
- Page No:
- p.376
- Poem Title:
- DEO OPT. MAX.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Let not this weak unknowing hand
- Page No:
- p.377
- Poem Title:
- DEO OPT. MAX.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Yet not to earth's contracted span
- Page No:
- p.377
- Poem Title:
- DEO OPT. MAX.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- If I am right oh teach my heart
- Page No:
- p.378
- Poem Title:
- DEO OPT. MAX.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Save me alike from foolish pride
- Page No:
- p.379
- Poem Title:
- DEO OPT. MAX.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Mean though I am not wholly so
- Page No:
- p.380
- Poem Title:
- DEO OPT. MAX.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Teach me to feel another's woe
- Page No:
- p.380
- Poem Title:
- DEO OPT. MAX.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- This day be bread and peace my lot
- Page No:
- p.381
- Poem Title:
- DEO OPT. MAX.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- To thee whose temple is all space
- Page No:
- p.382
- Poem Title:
- DEO OPT. MAX.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Oh be thou blessed with all that heaven can send
- Page No:
- pp.388-389
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
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