LETTERS to and from Mr. GAY, &c.

LETTER

From 1712 to 1732.

P. 105

I. The author's opinion of Mr. Gay's merit and mo
defty.

II. His defire to do him fervice, and advice as to the

Study of poetry.

III. Concerning painting; Mr. Gay's poem of the

Fan.

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
fale of his eftate. 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

epitaph.

VII. To Mr. Gay at Bath; the commitment of the
Bishop of Rochester to the Tower.

VIII. Of disappointments from great men: Friends
commemorated.

IX. Affurances of remembrance in abfence.

X. XI. XII. Ťo Mr. Gay in a dangerous fickness.

XIII. On his recovery, and Mr. Congreve's

death.

XIV. To the Hon. Mr.

XV. Excufe for not writing. Of Mr. Fenton's

death.

XVI. A congratulation to Mr. Gay, on the end of his

expectations at court. The innocence of a pri-

vate life, and the happiness of independency.

XVII. From Mr. Gay, in the country. Thoughts of

buying a farm, and about the Dunciad.

XVIII. To

LETTER

XVIII. To Mr. Gay, in the country. Wishes to ferve
bim.

XIX. Complaints of his abfence, and some envy at his

fituation.

XX. The author more and more inclined to retire-

ment.

XXI. More of the fame. Concern for his friend's
abfence, affection to his perfon, and wishes for
his happiness.

XXII. Defiring him to return to town and refume the
Audy of Poetry. The ftate of wit at that time.
XXIII. On the fame fubject. The death of Wilks the
player: Verfes on the hermitage at Richmond, &c.
XXIV. From Mr. Gay. His ill fate of health.
His opinion of writing panegyric.

XXV. From Mr. Cleland to Mr. Gay.

XXVI. Mr. Pope to the Earl of Burlington.

XXVII. The author's bad health, complaints of ab-

fence, and fome advice to his friend.

XXVIII. On the death of Mr. Gay, his mother's ill-

nefs, and other melancholy incidents.

XXIX. To Hugh Bethel Efq praife of humanity and

good-nature. The benefits of equality in friend-

ship.

XXX. To the fame. On the death of the Earl of

C.

XXXI. On his mother's recovery: The melancholy of-
fices of friends. A prospect of the town upon the
death of the King.

XXXII. On the publishing his letters.

The fituation
of the author, his pleasures and his friendships.

XXXIII. To the Earl of Peterborow.

gardening. Reflections on Titles.

news.

His love of

Dearth of

Stowe

XXXIV. From the Earl of Peterborow.

gardens: Temper of women: His love of lazi-

nefs, and the reafon.

XXXV. An-

LETTER

XXXV. Answer to the former.

XXXVI. From the Earl of Peterborow. His dif
like of coming to town: The Charitable Corpora-
tion; more concerning women.

XXXVII. From the Earl of Peterborow from his
garden: his idea of the Golden Age, and un-
willingness to come to town.

XXXVIII. From the fame. Defire to fee Dr. Swift.
Alteration in his paffions, and from whence.

XXXIX. From Dr. Swift to the Earl of Peter-

borow.

XL. A confultation about defigning a garden: Various
opinions, and fome general reflections.

XLI. To Mr. C

expoftulatory on the hardships

done an unhappy lady, &c.

XLII. To Mr. Richardsen.

XLIII. To the fame; after Mrs. Pope's death.

XLIV. To the fame.

XLV. To Mr. B. concerning the Effay on Man, &c.
XLVI. Concern for the lofs of friends.

XLVII. From Dr. Arbuthnot in his laft fickness. His
dying request to the author.

XLVIII. The answer.

The character of Katharine late Duchefs of Bucking-
inghamshire and Normanby

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LETTERS

TO AND FROM

EDWARD BLOUNT, Efq.

From 1714 to 1725.

LETTER I

Mr. POPE to EDWARD BLOUNT, Efq.

Auguft 27, 1714.

Hatever ftudies on the one hand, or amusements on the other, it fhall be my fortune to fall into, I fhall be equal

ly incapable of forgetting you in any of them. The task I undertook*, though of weight enough in itself, has had a voluntary increase by the inlarging my defign of the Notes +; and the neceffity of confulting a number of books has carry'd me to Oxford: but, I fear, thro' my Lord Harcourt's and Dr. Clarke's means, I fhall be more converfant with the pleasures and company of

*The Tranflation of Homer's Iliad.

P.

+ The notes on the Iliad were his own: Those on the Odyssey were Dr. Broome's. -But they speak their refpective Authors.

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