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 XXII. Mr. Jervas to Mr. Pope, concerning Mr. XXIII. The answer. XXIV. Mr. Pope to the Earl of Hallifax. XXV. Dr. Parnelle, Dr. Berkley, Mr. Gay, and XXVI. To the Hon. James Craggs, Efq; on the fame. V. The Hon. Mr. Craggs to Mr. Pope. VI. To Mr. Fenton: Concerning Mr. Secretary planting: Death of feveral friends, and par- X. To the Earl of Burlington, on account of a journey to Oxford with Bernard Lintot, a XI. To the Duke of Buckingham, in anfwer to his XII. From the Duke of Buckingham to Mr. Popt, on the difpute in France concerning Homer. - 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. LETTERS O F Mr. POP E, AND Several of his FRIEND s. Quo Defiderio veteres revocamus Amores. CATULL. LETTERS TO AND FROM Mr. W Y CHERLE Y*. From the Year 1704 to 1710. I 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. |