Volume 1

The works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In six volumes complete. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements ... printed verbatim from the octavo edition of Mr. Warburton / [Alexander Pope].

  • Alexander Pope
Date:
1787-1788
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Credit: The works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In six volumes complete. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements ... printed verbatim from the octavo edition of Mr. Warburton / [Alexander Pope]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    F. Alas! alas! pray end what you began. And write next winter more BJfays on Man. 25; Ver. 255-] This was the laft poem of the kind printed by our ^author, with a refolution to publifli no more; -but to enter thus, in the moft plain and folcmn manner he could, a foVt of protest againft that infuperable. corruption and depravity of manners, •which he had been fo unhappy as to live to fee. Could he have hoped to have amended any, he had continued thofe attacksbut ' bad men were grown fo Ihamelefs and fo powerful, that Ridicule was become as unfafe as it was ineffeaual. The Poem raifed him, as he knew it would, fome enemies 5 but he had reafon to he fatisfied with the approbation of good men, and the teftimony of his own confclenc.e. VARIATIONS. Ver. nit, in the MS. •Quit, quit thefc themes, and write Eflays on Man.