Not one immoral, one corrupted thought,
One line, which dying he could wish to blot.
Oh! may to-night your favourable doom
Another laurel add, to grace his tomb :
Whilst he, fuperior now to praise or blame,
Hears not the feeble voice of human fame.
Yet, if to thofe whom most on earth he lov'd,
From whom his pious care is now remov'd,

With whom his liberal hand, and bounteous heart,.
Shar'd all his little fortune could impart ;

If to thofe friends your kind regard fhall give
What they no longer can from his receive ;
That, that, ev'n now, above yon ftarry pole,
May touch with pleasure his immortal foul.

E P I LO GUE

TO

LILLO'S ELMERICK..

YOU, who, fupreme o'er every work of wit,
In judgment here, unaw'd unbiafs'd, fit,

The palatines and guardians of the pit;
If to your minds this merely modern play
No useful fenfe, no generous warmth convey;
If fuftian here, through each unnatural fcene,
In ftrain'd conceits found high, and nothing mean;
If lofty dullness for your vengeance call:
Like Elmerick judge, and let the guilty fall.

But

But if fimplicity, with force and fire,
Unlabour'd thoughts and artlefs words infpire ::
If, like the action which these scenes relate,
The whole appear irregularly great ;
If mafter-ftrokes the nobler paffions move;
Then, like the king, acquit us, and approve..

INSCRIPTIONS AT HAGLE Y..

I. On a VIEW from an ALCOVE,

VIRIDANTIA TEMPE!

TEMPE, QVAE SYLVAE CINGVNT

DENTES,

RIVOS, ET

SVPERIMPEN

II, On a ROCKY FANCY SEAT.

EGO LAVDO RVRIS AMOENI,

MVSCO CIRVMLITA SAXA NEMVSQVE..

III.

TO THE MEMORY OF

WILLIAM SHENSTONE, ESQUIRE;

IN WHOSE VERSES

WERE ALL THE NATURAL GRACES,

AND IN WHOSE MANNERS

WAS ALL THE AMIABLE SIMPLICITY,

OF PASTORAL POETRY,

WITH THE SWEET TENDERNESS

OF THE ELEGIAC.

IV. On the Pedestal of an URN*,

ALEXANDRO POPE;

POETARVM ANGLICANORVM

ELEGANTISSIMO DVLCISSIMOQVE;

VIRORVM. CASTIGATORI ACERRIMO,

SAPIENTIAE DOCTORI SVAVISSIMO,

SACRA ESTO.

ANN. DOM. MDCCXLIV.

V. On a BENCH.

LIBET IACERE MODO SVB ANTIQVA ILICE,
MODO IN TENACE GRAMINE;

LABVNTER ALTIS INTERIM RIVIS AQVAE;

QVAERVNTVR IN SYLVIS AVES:

FONTESQVE LYMPHIS OBSTREPVNT MANANTIBVS SOMNOS QVOD INVITET LEVES.

VI. On THOMSON'S SEAT t.

INGENIO IMMORTALI

IACOBI THOMSON,

POETAE SVBLIMIS,

VIRI BONI;

AEDICVLAM HANC, QVEM VIVVS DILEXIT,
POST MORTEM EIVS CONSTRVCTAM,

DICAT DEDICATQVE

GEORGIVS LYTTELTON.

A Doric portico in another part of the park is honoured with the name of "Pope's Building," and infcribed, QVIETI ET

MVSIS.

line.

+A very handsome and well-finished building, in an octagonal CONTENTS

I. Uncertainty. To Mr. Pope,

II. Hope. To Mr. Doddington,

III. Jealousy. To Mr. Edward Walpole,

IV. Poffeffion. To Lord Cobham,

In Four

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Soliloquy of a Beauty in the Country. Written at

Eaton School,

Blenheim. Written at the University of Oxford, in

the Year

265

1727,

267

To the Reverend Dr. Ayfcough, at Oxford. Writ-

ten from Paris in the Year 1728,

273

To Mr. Poyntz, Ambaffador at the Congrefs of

Soiffons, in 1728. Written at Paris,

278

Verses to be written under a Picture of Mr. Poyntz, 281

An Epiftle to Mr. Pope. From Rome, 1730.

To Lord Hervey, in the Year 1730. From Wor-

cestershire,

-

282

285

287

Song.

Ode, in Imitation of Paftor Fido. Written Abroad

in 1729,

297

Parts of an Elegy of Tibullus.

Tranflated

1729-30,

Song. Written in the Year 1732,

Verfes written at Mr. Pope's House at Twickenham, which he had lent to Mrs. Greville. In

298

300

Auguft, 1735,

301

Epigram,

302

To Mr. Weft at Wickham. Written in the Year

A Prayer to Venus, in her Temple at Stowe. To

To the fame. On her pleading Want of Time,

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306

To the Memory of the fame Lady. A Monody.

A. D. 1747.

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Verfes,