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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1
Alexander Pope
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By The Rev. George Gilfillan
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LIFE OF ALEXANDER POPE
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PREFACE.2
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VARIATIONS IN THE AUTHOR'S MANUSCRIPT PREFACE.
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PASTORALS,
Reading
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SPRING — THE FIRST PASTORAL, OR DAMON.
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VARIATIONS
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SUMMER — THE SECOND PASTORAL, OR ALEXIS.
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VARIATIONS.
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AUTUMN. — THE THIRD PASTORAL, Or HYLAS AND ÆGON.
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VARIATIONS.
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WINTER. — THE FOURTH PASTORAL, OR DAPHNE.
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VARIATIONS.
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MESSIAH. — A SACRED ECLOGUE, IN IMITATION OF VIRGIL'S 'POLLIO.'
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Introduction.—That 'tis as great a fault to judge ill, as to write ill,
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PART II.
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PART III.
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PART FIRST.
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PART SECOND.
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PART THIRD.
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THE RAPE OF THE LOCK:
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CANTO I.
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CANTO II.
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VARIATION.
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CANTO III.
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VARIATIONS.
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CANTO IV.
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VARIATION.
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CANTO V.
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VARIATIONS.
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ODE ON ST CECILIA'S DAY,
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TWO CHORUSES TO THE TRAGEDY OF BRUTUS.
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TO THE AUTHOR OF A POEM ENTITLED SUCCESSIO.55
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ODE ON SOLITUDE.56
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THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL.57
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ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF AN UNFORTUNATE LADY58
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PROLOGUE TO MR ADDISON'S TRAGEDY OF CATO.
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I. CHAUCER.
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II. SPENSER.
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III. WALLER.
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ON A FAN OF THE AUTHOR'S DESIGN,
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IV. COWLEY.
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WEEPING.
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V. EARL OF ROCHESTER.
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VI. EARL OF DORSET.
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VII. DR SWIFT.
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THE TEMPLE OF FAME.
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ELOISA TO ABELARD.
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EPISTLE TO ROBERT EARL OF OXFORD AND EARL MORTIMER.68
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EPISTLE TO JAMES CRAGGS, ESQ., SECRETARY OF STATE.69
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EPISTLE TO MR JERVAS, WITH MR DRYDEN'S TRANSLATION OF FRESNOY'S 'ART OF PAINTING.'
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EPISTLE TO MISS BLOUNT, WITH THE WORKS OF VOITURE.72
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EPISTLE TO MRS TERESA BLOUNT. ON HER LEAVING THE TOWN AFTER THE CORONATION.74
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TO MRS M. B.75 ON HER BIRTHDAY.
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TO MR THOMAS SOUTHERN,76 ON HIS BIRTHDAY, 1742.
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VARIATION.
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TO MR JOHN MOORE, AUTHOR OF THE CELEBRATED WORM-POWDER.
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TO MR C.,80 ST JAMES'S PLACE.
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EPITAPHS.
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AN ESSAY ON MAN: IN FOUR EPISTLES TO HENRY ST JOHN, LORD BOLINGBROKE.
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EPISTLE I. — OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH RESPECT TO THE UNIVERSE.
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EPISTLE II. — OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH RESPECT TO HIMSELF AS AN INDIVIDUAL.
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EPISTLE III. — OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH RESPECT TO SOCIETY.
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EPISTLE IV. — OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH RESPECT TO HAPPINESS.
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EPISTLE TO DR ARBUTHNOT; OR, PROLOGUE TO THE SATIRES.
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SATIRES AND EPISTLES OF HORACE IMITATED.
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THE FIRST EPISTLE OF THE SECOND BOOK OF HORACE.
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TO AUGUSTUS.142
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THE SECOND EPISTLE OF THE SECOND BOOK OF HORACE.
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BOOK I. EPISTLE VII. — IMITATED IN THE MANNER OF DR SWIFT.
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BOOK II. SATIRE VI. THE FIRST PART IMITATED IN THE YEAR 1714, BY DR SWIFT; THE LATTER PART ADDED AFTERWARDS.
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BOOK IV. ODE I. TO VENUS.
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PART OF THE NINTH ODE OF THE FOURTH BOOK.
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THE SATIRES OF DR JOHN DONNE, DEAN OF ST PAUL'S,171 VERSIFIED.
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EPILOGUE177 TO THE SATIRES. IN TWO DIALOGUES. (WRITTEN IN MDCCXXXVIII.)
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FOOTNOTES:
Chapter 5 of 76
PASTORALS,
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