LETTER IX. TO Mr. Blount, after his retirement into Flander's. On the history of Jeffery of Monmouth, &c. X. On the death of the uuthor's father. XI. To Mr. Blount. XII. On Mr. Blount's recovery from an illness : Ad vice to fell his eflate. XIII. Of his manner of life in the country, and of the author's near the town. XIV. A defcription of a grotto. XV. On the approach of winter, hospitality, and a ? cheerful family. L ET T E R S to and from the Honourable ROBERT DIG BY, From 1717 to 1724. P. 30 LETTER 1. After a fit of fickness. Of the Tragedy of Gor boduc. The author's progrefs in translating Ho mer's Iliad. II. Excuse for writing carelessly : The humour of the town. III. From Mr. Digby. Answer to the former. IV. On the finishing his translation of the Iliad. His situation at Twickenham, Planting, The death of a friend, V. From Mr. Digby. . Answer to the former. VI. From Mr. Digby. On the South-sea-year. VII. Answer to the former. VIII. IX. From Mr. Digby. On the same subject. X. Character of Dr. Arbuthnot and his brother. Death of a friend. 4 XI. Cha. LETTER Park; the Bishop of Rochester's conversation. The disadvantages of an ill constitution. Cona folation in friends of integrity. Their manner of life in the country preferred to that in the town. XV. On the same subject. XVI. XVII. On the season of Christmas: Cuftoms of bof pitality : Charity and good works, where they are yet subfifting XVIII. To the Hon. Edward Digby, on his brother's death. p. 53. LETTERS to and from Dr. ATTERBURY, Bishop of RochesTER. From 1716 to 1723. LETTER I. From the Bijñop of Rochester, Concerning Mr. Pope's general preface to his works. II. From the same III. From the Bishop of Rochester. On occasion of the death of Mr. Pope's father. IV. The answer. V. On the fate of the South-Sca. VI From the Bishop of Rochester. Of Mr. Dry den's monument : The Arabian Tales: The South-Sza scheme. VII. From the same. On a manuscript of Huetius, and the epitaph on Mr. Harcourt, VIII. From a 2 LETTER epitaph of his son. IX. From the Bishop of Rochester. On his ill health. Waller's verses on fickness. Mr. Prior's fune ral. X. From the fame. His love of the country. A paljage in Tully. Of Shakespear, and the pub lication of Mr. Addison's works. XI. To the Bishop of Rochester. XII. From the Bishop. On a character drawn by the author. XIII. To the Bishop in the country : Wishes for his quie. XIV. From the Bishop of Rochester, his desire of quiet, and love of books. XV. An invitation to Twickenham : The.vanity and cmptiness of the world. XVI. From the Bishop of Rochester. An answer to the former. His disike of great men: Prepara tion for his burial-place in IVestminster-Abbey. XVII. From the same, on the same subject. The state of his mind, and the world's mistake of his cha rafter. XVIII. From the same. More concerning men of quar lity. Of Milton's manufcript, and Agonistes. XIX. The Duke of Marlborougl's funeral. The auther's 's resolution to keep clear of fattery. XX. From the Bishop. Answer to the former. Ap plication of some verses of Horace to the Duke of Marlborough's funeral. XXI. From the Bishop of Rochester in the Tower. XXII. The answer. XXIII. The author's last letter to the Bishop of Ro chefer. XXIV. From the Bishop of Rochester. XXV. On the death of his daughter. LETTERS LETTERS to and from Mr. GAY, &c. From 1712 to 173 2. p. 105 I. The author's opinion of Mr. Gay's merit and mo- II. His desire to do him service, and advice as to the III. Concerning painting ; Mr. Gay's poem of the IV, To Mr. Gay on his return from Hanover after the Queen's death. Advice about politics. V. After the death of the author's father, and the sale of his eflate. Mr. Gay's poem to Mr. Lowndes, and his expectations at court. VI. From Mr. Gay at Bath; on the remarkable death of two lovers by lightning, with their VII. To Mr. Gay at Bath; the commitment of the Bishop of Rochester to the Tower. VIII. Of disappointments from great men: Friends IX. Asurances of remembrance in absence. X. XŤ. XII. To Mr. Gay in a dangerous fickness. XV. Exclife for not writing. Of Mr. Fenton's XVI. A congratulation to Mr. Gay, on the end of his expectations at court. The innocenee of a pri- vate life, and the happiness of independency. XVIII. TO XVIII. Te Mr. Gay, in the country. Wishes to serve XIX. Complaints of his absence, and fame envy at his XX. The author more and more inclined to retires XXI. More of the same. Concern for his friend's absence, affection to his perfon, and wishes for XXII. Defiring him to return to town and resume the Nudy of Poetry. The state of wit at that time. XXIII. On the same subject. The death of IV is the player : Verses on the hermitage at Richmond, &c. XXIV. From Mr. Gay. His il fate of health, His opinion of writing panegyric. XXV. From Mr. Cleland to Mr. Gay. XXVI. Mr. Pope to the Earl of Burlington, XXVIl. The author's bad health, complaints of ab- sence, and forme advice to his friend. XXVIII. On the death of Mr. Gay, his mother's ill- ness, and other melancholy incidents, XXIX. TO Hugh Bethel Esq: praise of humanity and good-nature. The benefits of equality in friend. XXX. To the fame. On the death of the Earl of XXX1. On his mother's recovery: The melancholy of - fices of friends. A prospect of the town upon the death of the King. of the author, his pleasures and his friendships. gardening. Reflections on Titles. Dearth of XXXIV. From the Earl of Peterborow. Stowia |