THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

ALEXANDER POРЕ,

WITH A LIFE,

BY REV. ALEXANDER DYCE.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOLUME II.

BOSTON:

LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY.

M.DCCC.LXIII.

CONTENTS.

VOL. II.

An Essay on Criticism..

Page

1

An Essay on Man. In Four Epistles to Lord Bolingbroke. 31

Epistle I. Of the Nature and State of Man with

respect to the Universe.........

Epistle II. Of the Nature and State of Man with

respect to himself as an Individual.......

Epistle III. Of the Nature and State of Man with

respect to Society...

35

47

58

Epistle IV. Of the Nature and State of Man with

respect to Happiness..

70

Universal Prayer...........

85

MORAL ESSAYS.

87

Epistle I. To Sir Richard Temple, Lord Cobham.

Of the Knowledge and Characters of Men......

Epistle II. To a Lady. Of the Characters of

92

Women

104

Epistle III. To Allen, Lord Bathurst. Of the Use

of Riches....

116

Epistle IV. To Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington.

Of the Use of Riches.....

133

Epistle to Mr. Addison, occasioned by his Dialogues

on Medals..

142

Ode for Music on St. Cecilia's Day.....

144

Ode on Solitude. Written when the Author was about

Epistle to Robert Earl of Oxford and Mortimer. Pre-

fixed to Parnell's Poems

156