M.DCCC.LVI.
CONTENTS
[ VARIATIONS IN THE AUTHOR'S MANUSCRIPT PREFACE. ]
[ SPRING — THE FIRST PASTORAL, OR DAMON. ]
[ SUMMER — THE SECOND PASTORAL, OR ALEXIS. ]
[ AUTUMN. — THE THIRD PASTORAL, Or HYLAS AND ÆGON. ]
[ WINTER. — THE FOURTH PASTORAL, OR DAPHNE. ]
[ MESSIAH. — A SACRED ECLOGUE, IN IMITATION OF VIRGIL'S 'POLLIO.' ]
[ Introduction.—That 'tis as great a fault to judge ill, as to write ill, ]
[ TWO CHORUSES TO THE TRAGEDY OF BRUTUS. ]
[ TO THE AUTHOR OF A POEM ENTITLED SUCCESSIO.[55] ]
[ THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL.[57] ]
[ ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF AN UNFORTUNATE LADY[58] ]
[ PROLOGUE TO MR ADDISON'S TRAGEDY OF CATO. ]
[ IMITATIONS OF ENGLISH POETS.[60] ]
[ ON A FAN OF THE AUTHOR'S DESIGN, ]
[ EPISTLE TO ROBERT EARL OF OXFORD AND EARL MORTIMER.[68] ]
[ EPISTLE TO JAMES CRAGGS, ESQ., SECRETARY OF STATE.[69] ]
[ EPISTLE TO MR JERVAS, WITH MR DRYDEN'S TRANSLATION OF FRESNOY'S 'ART OF PAINTING.' ]
[ EPISTLE TO MISS BLOUNT, WITH THE WORKS OF VOITURE.[72] ]
[ EPISTLE TO MRS TERESA BLOUNT. ON HER LEAVING THE TOWN AFTER THE CORONATION.[74] ]
[ TO MRS M. B.[75] ON HER BIRTHDAY. ]
[ TO MR THOMAS SOUTHERN,[76] ON HIS BIRTHDAY, 1742. ]
[ TO MR JOHN MOORE, AUTHOR OF THE CELEBRATED WORM-POWDER. ]
[ TO MR C.,[80] ST JAMES'S PLACE. ]
[ AN ESSAY ON MAN: IN FOUR EPISTLES TO HENRY ST JOHN, LORD BOLINGBROKE. ]
[ EPISTLE I. — OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH RESPECT TO THE UNIVERSE. ]
[ EPISTLE II. — OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH RESPECT TO HIMSELF AS AN INDIVIDUAL. ]
[ EPISTLE III. — OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH RESPECT TO SOCIETY. ]
[ EPISTLE IV. — OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH RESPECT TO HAPPINESS. ]
[ EPISTLE TO DR ARBUTHNOT; OR, PROLOGUE TO THE SATIRES. ]
[ SATIRES AND EPISTLES OF HORACE IMITATED. ]
[ THE FIRST EPISTLE OF THE SECOND BOOK OF HORACE. ]
[ THE SECOND EPISTLE OF THE SECOND BOOK OF HORACE. ]
[ BOOK I. EPISTLE VII. — IMITATED IN THE MANNER OF DR SWIFT. ]
[ THE SATIRES OF DR JOHN DONNE, DEAN OF ST PAUL'S,[171] VERSIFIED. ]
[ EPILOGUE[177] TO THE SATIRES. IN TWO DIALOGUES. (WRITTEN IN MDCCXXXVIII.) ]