1

WORKS

OF

ALEXANDER POPE, ESQ.

WITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS

BY

HIMSELF AND OTHERS.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

A NEW LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

AN ESTIMATE OF HIS

POETICAL CHARACTER AND WRITINGS,

AND OCCASIONAL REMARKS,

BY

WILLIAM ROSCOE, ESQ.

IN TEN VOLUMES.

VOL. VI.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR C. AND J. RIVINGTON; T. CADELL; LONGMAN, HURST, REES,
ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN; J. CUTHELL; J. NUNN; J. AND W. T. CLARKE;
JEFFERY AND SON; J. AND A. ARCH; R. H. EVANS; JOHN RICHARDSON; J.
M. RICHARDSON; J. MAWMAN; R.SCHOLEY; J. BOOKER; J. BOHN; S. BAGSTER;
J. BOOTH; BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY; HARDING, LEPARD, AND TRIPHOOK;
G. AND W. B. WHITTAKER; R. SAUNDERS; J. DUNCAN; E. EDWARDS; KINGS-
BURY, FARBURY, AND ALLEN; G. MACKIE; HURST, ROBINSON, AND CO.;
GOSSLING AND EGLEY; J. SETCHELL; J. BAIN; AND C. WICKSTEAD; AND
DEIGHTON AND SONS, CAMBRIDGE; AND A BLACK, AND J. FAIRBAIRN,

EDINBURGH.

1824.

J. M'Creery, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London.

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CONTENTS

OF

THE SIXTH VOLUME.

AN ESSAY ON SATIRE, by J. Brown, A. M.

SATIRES

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, a Prologue to the Sa-

tires

Satires and Epistles of Horace imitated.

Book II. Satire I. To Mr. Fortescue

Book II. Satire II. To Mr. Bethel

Epistles imitated from Horace.

Epistle I. Book I. To Lord Bolingbroke

Epistle VI. Book I. To Mr. Murray

Epistle I. Book II. To Augustus

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25

31

91

. 187

.253

293

. 296

. 310

Epistle II. Book II. To Colonel Cotterell

Satires of Dr. John Donne versified

.339

. 343

Imitations of Horace

Epistle VII. Book I. Imitated in the manner of

Dr. Swift

Satire VI.

Ode I. Book IV. To Venus