Copy 1, Volume 6

The 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.

  • Alexander Pope
Date:
1824
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Credit: The 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FRAGMENTS. THE FOURTH EPISTLE OF THE FIRST BOOK: OF HORACE’S EPISTLES. [This Satire on Lord Bolingbroke, and the praise bestowed on him in a letter to.Mr. Richardson, where Mr. Pope says, ‘“¢ Their sons shall blush their fathers were thy foes,” being so contradictory, probably occasioned the former to be sup- pressed. Warton. Mr. Bowles has Smitted the following piece, because ‘ he can- not think Pope would write the concluding lines on himself,” v. Bowles’s ed. vol. ii. p. 385, in which opinion the present editor perfectly agrees with him. But it may be observed, that this piece is as likely to be Pope’s, both from the sentiment and the manner of its execution, as the Satire of One thousand seven hun- dred and forty, which Mr. Bowles has published, and is probably by the same author. ] Say, St. John, who alone peruse With candid eye, the mimic muse, What schemes of politics, or laws, In Gallic lands the patriot draws! _ Is then a greater work in hand, Then all the tomes of Haines’s band ? Or NOTES. Ver. 1. Say, §c.] Ap Axsium TiBuLLUM. ‘«‘ Albi, nostrorum sermonum candide judex, Quid nunc te dicam facere in regione Pedana ? Scribere, quod Cassi Parmensis opuscula vincat ?” VOL. VI. 2G