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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 by Gilfillan, George, 1813-1878, Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744

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Contents The Universal Prayer Moral Essays.

Epistle I.-to Sir Richard Temple, Lord Cobham. Argument. Of The Knowledge And Characters Of Men.

Epistle Ii.-to A Lady. Of The Characters Of Women.

Variations. Epistle Iii.[20]-to Allen Lord Bathurst. Argument. Of The Use Of Riches.

Epistle Iv.-to Richard Boyle, Earl Of Burlington. Argument. Of The Use Of Riches.

Variation. Epistle V. To Mr Addison. Occasioned By His Dialogues On Medals.[54]

Translations And Imitations. Sappho To Phaon. From The Fifteenth Of Ovid's Epistles.

The Fable Of Dryope.[56] From The Ninth Book Of Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Vertumnus And Pomona, From The Fourteenth Book Of Ovid's Metamorphoses.

The First Book Of Statius's Thebais. Translated In The Year 1703. Argument.

* * * * * January And May. From Chaucer.[58]

The Wife Of Bath, Her Prologue. From Chaucer.

Prologue And Epilogues A Prologue Prologue To Mr Addison's 'cato.'

Prologue To Thomson's 'sophonisba.'[59] Prologue, Designed For Mr D'urfey's Last Play.

Prologue To 'the Three Hours After Marriage' Epilogue To Mr Rowe's 'jane Shore.' Designed For Mrs Oldfield.

A Farewell To London In The Year 1715. Sandys' Ghost;[82]

Umbra.[85] Sylvia, A Fragment. Impromptu To Lady Winchelsea.

To Erinna. A Dialogue. Ode To Quinbus Flestrin, The Lamentation Of Glumdalclitch For The Loss Of Grildrig. A Pastoral.

To Mr Lemuel Gulliver, Houyhnhnm. Mary Gulliver To Captain Lemuel Gulliver. An Epistle.

1740. A Fragment Of A Poem.

The Fourth Epistle Of The First Book Of Horace.[128]

Mr John Dennis. Mr Oldmixon. Mr Leonard Welsted,

Mr Addison. Mr John Dennis, Dr Garth,

Mr Theobald, Mist's Journal, June 8, 1728,) Mist's Journal, June 8, 1728,) Mist's Journal, June 8, 1728.

James Moore Smith, Gent. Mr James Moore Smith.

Mr Lewis Theobald Mr Theobald, Mr Charles Gildon,

P. * * * * * Martinus Scriblerus Of The Poem.

P. Ricardus Aristarchus Of The Hero Of The Poem.

By Authority. The Dunciad:[234] Book The First. To Dr Jonathan Swift. Argument.

Book The Second. Argument.

Book The Third. Argument.

Book The Fourth. Argument.

Variations. Ver. 114- By The Author. A Declaration.

Appendix To The Dunciad. I.-preface The Publisher To The Reader.

The Dunciad. Ii.-a List Of Books, Papers, And Verses,

Verses, Letters, Essays, Or Advertisements, In The Public Prints. After The Dunciad, 1728.

Iii.-advertisement To The First Edition-with Notes, In Quarto, 1729.

When Printed Separately In The Year 1742.

W. W. Vi.-advertisement Printed In The Journals, 1730. Vii.-a Parallel Of The Characters Of Mr Dryden And Mr Pope, As Drawn By Certain Of Their Contemporaries. Mr Dryden-his Politics, Religion, Morals.

Mr Dryden Only A Versifier. Mr Dryden's Virgil. Mr Dryden Understood No Greek Nor Latin. Mr Dryden Tricked His Subscribers. Names Bestowed On Mr Dryden.

Mr Pope-his Politics, Religion, Morals. Mr Pope Only A Versifier. Mr Pope's Homer. Mr Pope Understood No Greek. Mr Pope Tricked His Subscribers.

Names Bestowed On Mr Pope. Index Of Persons Celebrated In This Poem. The First Number Shows The Book; The Second, The Verse.

End Of Pope's Works.

In the former editions, VER. 208--

Nature well known, no _miracles_ remain.

EPISTLE II.--TO A LADY.

OF THE CHARACTERS OF WOMEN.

Nothing so true as what you once let fall-- 'Most women have no characters at all.' Matter too soft a lasting mark to bear, And best distinguish'd by black, brown, or fair.

How many pictures of one nymph we view, All how unlike each other, all how true! Arcadia's Countess, here, in ermined pride, Is there, Pastora by a fountain side. Here Fannia, leering on her own good man, And there, a naked Leda with a swan. 10 Let then the fair one beautifully cry, In Magdalen's loose hair and lifted eye, Or dress'd in smiles of sweet Cecilia shine, With simpering angels, palms, and harps divine; Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.

Come then, the colours and the ground prepare! Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air; Choose a firm cloud, before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute. 20

Rufa, whose eye quick glancing o'er the park, Attracts each light gay meteor of a spark, Agrees as ill with Rufa studying Locke, As Sappho's[12] diamonds with her dirty smock; Or Sappho at her toilet's greasy task, With Sappho fragrant at an evening mask: So morning insects that in muck begun, Shine, buzz, and fly-blow in the setting sun.

How soft is Silia! fearful to offend; The frail one's advocate, the weak one's friend: 30 To her, Calista proved her conduct nice; And good Simplicius asks of her advice. Sudden, she storms! she raves! You tip the wink, But spare your censure--Silia does not drink. All eyes may see from what the change arose, All eyes may see--a pimple on her nose.

Papillia, wedded to her amorous spark, Sighs for the shades--'How charming is a park!' A park is purchased, but the fair he sees All bathed in tears--'Oh odious, odious trees!' 40

Ladies, like variegated tulips, show, 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe; Fine by defect, and delicately weak, Their happy spots the nice admirer take. 'Twas thus Calypso once each heart alarm'd, Awed without virtue, without beauty charm'd; Her tongue bewitch'd as oddly as her eyes, Less wit than mimic, more a wit than wise; Strange graces still, and stranger flights she had, Was just not ugly, and was just not mad; 50 Yet ne'er so sure our passion to create, As when she touch'd the brink of all we hate.