BOSTON:
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

1866.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massa

chusetts.

DEN LIBRARY

1895

UNIVERSITY PRESS:
WELCH, BIGELOW, AND COMPANY,

CAMBRIDGE.

CONTENTS.

VOL. II.

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An Essay on Criticism.......

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......................... 35

Epistle II. Of the Nature and State of Man with

respect to himself as an Individual.............. 47

Epistle III. Of the Nature and State of Man with

respect to Society..............................

Epistle IV. Of the Nature and State of Man with

respect to Happiness............ ............

Universal Prayer.......

MORAL ESSAYS.

Epistle I. To Sir Richard. Temple, Lord Cobham.

Of the Knowledge and Characters of Men...... 92

Epistle II. To a" Lady. Of the Characters of

Women ........................

.................. 104

Epistle II. 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

twelve Years old...................

To the Author of a Poem entitled Successio........... 150

Ode. The Dying Christian to his Soul................

151

Two Choruses to the Tragedy of Brutus............... 152

Epistle to Robert Earl of Oxford and Mortimer. Pre-

fixed to Parnell's Poems....

................... 156

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