THE POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR. TWO VOLS. IN ONE BOSTON: 110 Washington Street. 1852. CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, 1708 Two Chorusses, to the Tragedy of Brutus 70 The Dying Christian to his Soul Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady 118 Prologue to Mr. Addison's Tragedy of Cato 120 Epilogue to Mr. Rowe's Jane Shore The Wife of Bath, her Prologue 'mitations of English Poets,-Chaucer Dr. Swift,- Happy Life of a Country Parson ib 2055663 CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. THE LIFE OF ALEXANDER POPE This illustrious poet was born at London in 1689 and was descended from a good family of loat name in Oxfordshire, the head of which was the Earl of Downe, whose sole heiress married the Earl of Lindsey. His father, a man of primitive simplicity and integrity of manners, was a merchant of London, who, upon the Revolution, quitted trąde, and converted his effects into money, amounting to near 10,0001. with which he retired into the country; and died in 1717, at the age of seventy-five. Our poet's mother, who lived to a very advanced age, being ninety-three years old when she died, in 1733, was the daughter of William Turner, Esq. of York. She had three brothers, one of whom was killed, another died in the service of King Charles ; and the eldest, following his fortunes, and becoming a general officer in Spain, left her what estate remained after sequestration and forfeitures of her fa. mily. To these circumstances our poet alludes in his Epistles to Dr. Arbuthnot, in which he mentions his parents : Of gentle blood (part shed in honour's cause, |
