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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.

THE FIRST BOOK OF STATIUS'S THEBAIS.

TRANSLATED IN THE YEAR 1703.

ARGUMENT.

Oedipus, King of Thebes, having, by mistake, slain his father Laius, and married his mother Jocasta, put out his own eyes, and resigned his realm to his sons Eteocles and Polynices. Being neglected by them, he makes his prayer to the fury Tisiphone, to sow debate betwixt the brothers. They agree at last to reign singly, each a year by turns, and the first lot is obtained by Eteocles. Jupiter, in a council of the gods, declares his resolution of punishing the Thebans, and Argives also, by means of a marriage betwixt Polynices and one of the daughters of Adrastus, King of Argos. Juno opposes, but to no effect; and Mercury is sent on a message to the shades, to the ghost of Laius, who is to appear to Eteocles, and provoke him to break the agreement. Polynices, in the meantime, departs from Thebes by night, is overtaken by a storm, and arrives at Argos, where he meets with Tydeus, who had fled from Calydon, having killed his brother. Adrastus entertains them, having received an oracle from Apollo that his daughters should be married to a boar and a lion, which he understands to be meant by these strangers, by whom the hides of those beasts were worn, and who arrived at the time when he kept an annual feast in honour of that god. The rise of this solemnity, he relates to his guests; the loves of Phoebus and Psamathe, and the story of Choroebus. He inquires, and is made acquainted with their descent and quality. The sacrifice is renewed, and the book concludes with a hymn to Apollo.--_P_.

Fraternal rage, the guilty Thebes' alarms, Th' alternate reign destroy'd by impious arms, Demand our song; a sacred fury fires My ravish'd breast, and all the Muse inspires. O goddess! say, shall I deduce my rhymes From the dire nation in its early times, Europa's rape, Agenor's stern decree, And Cadmus searching round the spacious sea? How with the serpent's teeth he sow'd the soil, And reap'd an iron harvest of his toil? 10 Or how from joining stones the city sprung, While to his harp divine Amphion sung? Or shall I Juno's hate to Thebes resound, Whose fatal rage th' unhappy monarch found? The sire against the son his arrows drew, O'er the wide fields the furious mother flew, And while her arms a second hope contain, Sprung from the rocks, and plunged into the main.