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XVIII. The vanity of poetical fame, ferious thoughts.

XIX. Concerning the tranflation of Homer.

XX. To Mr. Jervas, of the fame.

XXI. To the fame, on the equal and easy terms of

friendship.

XXII. Mr. Jervas to Mr. Pope, concerning Mr.
Addifon.

XXIII. The answer.

XXIV. Mr. Pope to the Earl of Hallifax.

XXV. Dr. Parnelle, Dr. Berkley, Mr. Gay, and
Dr. Arbuthnot; concerning Mr. Pope's Ho-

mer.

XXVI. To the Hon. James Craggs, Efq; on the fame.
XXVII. To Mr. Congreve. Of fincerity; the fcurri
lities of abufive critics; what ought to be
the temper of an author.

XXVIII. To the fame, of the Farce called the What--

dye-call-it.

XXIX. To the fame.

XXX. From Mr. Congreve.

LETTERS to SEVERAL PERSONS.

From the year 1714 to 1721.

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I. From the Reverend Dean Berkley to Mr.

Pape, Of the Rape of the Lock; the flate

of learning in Italy.

II. Mr. Pope to Mr. Jervas.

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III. To the fame.

IV. To the fame.

V. The Hon. Mr. Craggs to Mr. Pope.

VI. To Mr. Fenton: Concerning Mr. Secretary

Craggs's advice to him to write.

manner of paling his time.

The author's

VII. From Dean Berkley. A defcription of the island

Inarime. Character of the Italians.

VIII. Mr. Pope to

the author building and

planting: Death of feveral friends, and par-

ticularly of Dr. Garth.

IX. To Mr. — on the circuit.

X. To the Earl of Burlington, on account of a

journey to Oxford with Bernard Lintot, a

bookfeller.

XI. To the Duke of Buckingham, in anfwer to his

Letter on Buckingham-house.

XII. From the Duke of Buckingham to Mr. Popt,

on the difpute in France concerning Homer.

XIII. Answer to the former.

- XIV. From Dr. Arbuthnot, after the Queen's death,

of the papers of Scriblerus and Dr. Swift.

XV. To Dr. Arbuthnot, on his return from France,

and on the calumnies about the Odyssey.

'XVI. To Robert Earl of Oxford.

XVII. The Earl of Oxford's answer,

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O F

Mr. POP E,

AND

Several of his FRIEND s.

Quo Defiderio veteres revocamus Amores.
Atque olim amiffas flemus Amicitias!

CATULL.

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LETTERS

TO AND FROM

Mr. W Y CHERLE Y*.

From the Year 1704 to 1710.

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LETTER I.

Binfield in Windfor Foreft, Dec. 26, 1704 +. T was certainly a great fatisfaction to me to fee and converse with a man, whom in his writings

I had fo long known with pleasure; but it was a high addition to it, to hear you, at our very first meeting, doing juftice to your dead friend Mr. Dry

* If one were to judge of this set of Letters by the manner of thinking and turn of expreffion, one fhould conclude they had been all mistitled; and that the letters given to the boy of fixteen, were written by the man of feventy, and fo on the contrary: fuch fober sense, fuch gravity of manners, and fo much judginent, and knowledge of compofition, enlivened with the fprightliness of manly wit, distinguish thofe of Mr. Pope: while, on the other hand, a childish jealoufy, a puerile affectation, an attention and lying at catch for turns and points, together with a total ignorance and contempt of order, of method, and of all relation of the parts to one another to compofe a reasonable whole, make up the character of those of Mr. Wycherley.

+ The Author's Age then fixteen.