I’ve often wish’d that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a-year, A handsome house to lodge a friend, A river at my garden’s end, A terrace-walk, and half a rood Of land, set out to plant a wood. Well, now I have all this and more, I ask not to increase my store; But here a grievance seems to lie, All…
Book I. Epistle VII. By Alexander Pope
IMITATED IN THE MANNER OF DR SWIFT. ‘Tis true, my lord, I gave my word, I would be with you, June the third; Changed it to August,…
Autumn – The Third Pastoral, Or Hylas And �gon By Alexander Pope
Beneath the shade a spreading Beech displays,Hylas and Aegon sung their rural lays,This mourn’d a faithless, that an absent Love,And Delia’s name and Doris’ fill’d…
Argus By Alexander Pope
When wise Ulysses, from his native coastLong kept by wars, and long by tempests toss’d,Arrived at last, poor, old, disguised, alone,To all his friends, and…
Answer To The Following Question Of Mrs Howe. By Alexander Pope
What is prudery? ‘Tis a bledam, Seen with wit and beauty seldom. ‘Tis a fear that starts at shadows. Tis, (no, ’tisn’t) like Miss Meadows. ‘Tis a virgin hard…
An Essay On Man: Epistle IV. By Alexander Pope
ARGUMENT. OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH RESPECT TO HAPPINESS. I. False notions of happiness, philosophical and popular, answered from ver. 19 to…
An Essay On Man: Epistle III. By Alexander Pope
ARGUMENT. OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH RESPECT TO SOCIETY. I. The whole universe one system of society, ver. 7, &c. Nothing made…
An Essay On Man: Epistle II. By Alexander Pope
ARGUMENT. OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH RESPECT TO HIMSELF AS AN INDIVIDUAL. I. The business of Man not to pry into God,…
An Essay On Man: Epistle I. By Alexander Pope
THE DESIGN. Having proposed to write some pieces on human life and manners, such as (to use my Lord Bacon’s expression) come home to men’s…
An Essay On Criticism By Alexander Pope
I That it is as great a fault to judge ill as to write ill, and a more dangerous one to the public. That a…