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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Poetry - Volume 1

Name: The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Poetry - Volume 1
Author: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744; Elwin, Whitwell, 1816-1900 [Contributor]

作者：Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744; Elwin, Whitwell, 1816-1900 [Contributor]
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THE WORKS
OF
ALEXANDER POPE.
NEW EDITION.
INCLUDING
SEVERAL HUNDRED UNPUBLISHED LETTERS, AND OTHER NEW MATERIALS.
COLLECTED IN PART BY THE LATE
R'T. HON. JOHN WILSON CROKER.
WITH INTRODUCTIONS AND NOTES.
BY REV. WHITWELL ELWIN.
VOL. I.
POETRY.--VOL. I.
WITH PORTRAITS AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS.
CONTENTS
OF
THE FIRST VOLUME OF POETRY.
POPE'S MEMORIAL LIST OF RELATIONS AND FRIENDS ix
ADVERTISEMENT OF WARBURTON TO HIS EDITION OF POPE'S WORKS xi
INTRODUCTION xv
THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE 1
RECOMMENDATORY POEMS 17
JANUARY AND MAY, FROM CHAUCER 113
THE WIFE OF BATH, FROM CHAUCER 155
THE TEMPLE OF FAME 185
MESSIAH, A SACRED ECLOGUE 301
WINDSOR FOREST 319
CATALOGUE
OF POPE'S COLLECTED EDITIONS OF HIS WORKS.
A MEMORIAL LIST
OF
DEPARTED RELATIONS AND FRIENDS.
NATUS MAJI 21, 1688, HORA POST MERID. 6-3/4.
FOOTNOTES:
ADVERTISEMENT OF WARBURTON TO HIS EDITION OF POPE'S WORKS, 1751.
FOOTNOTES:
INTRODUCTION.
"The engineer was hoist with his own pet
The artful wording of the very note in w
FOOTNOTES:
THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE.
THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE.
FOOTNOTES:
PREFACE TO POPE'S WORKS.
VOL. II. 4TO, 1735.
THE AUTHOR TO THE READER.
FOOTNOTES:
RECOMMENDATORY POEMS.[1]
JOHN SHEFFIELD, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.[2]
ON MR. POPE AND HIS POEMS.
ANNE, COUNTESS OF WINCHELSEA.[3]
TO MR. POPE.
MR. WYCHERLEY.
TO MR. POPE, ON HIS PASTORALS.[4]
FR. KNAPP.[9]
TO MR. POPE, ON HIS WINDSOR FOREST.[10]
ELIJAH FENTON.
TO MR. POPE.
IN IMITATION OF A GREEK EPIGRAM ON HOMER.[13]
DR. THOMAS PARNELL.
TO MR. POPE.
THE HON. SIMON HARCOURT.[15]
TO MR. POPE,
ON THE PUBLISHING HIS WORKS.
WILLIAM BROOME.
TO MR. POPE.[21]
LORD LYTTELTON.[25]
TO MR. POPE.[26]
FOOTNOTES:
TRANSLATIONS.
ADVERTISEMENT.
FOOTNOTES:
THE
FIRST BOOK OF STATIUS:
HIS
THEBAIS.
TRANSLATED IN THE YEAR 1703.
FOOTNOTES:
ARGUMENT
THE FIRST BOOK
OF
STATIUS'S THEBAIS.
FOOTNOTES:
The time may come when a divinor rage.]
When Dirce blushed, being stained with Grecian blood.]
And children's children shall the crown sustain.]
Broke ev'ry bond of nature and of truth]
And from Strymonius hewed his better hand.]
Pope might have done more to improve this prosaic couplet.]
Bore houses, herds, and lab'ring hinds away.]
Only one daughter heirs my crown and state.]
And on his altars waked the sleeping fires.]
And calls the furies from the depth of hell.]
Thou dost the seeds of future wars foreknow.]
TRANSLATIONS
FROM
OVID.
SAPPHO TO PHAON.[1]
FOOTNOTES:
Say, lovely youth, why would'st thou thus betray.--WAKEFIELD.]
These mournful numbers suit a mournful muse.]
For they who truly love remember all.--BOWLES.]
The original couplet in the MS. was
The entire story was probably a legend.]
To those steep cliffs, that ocean must I fly.]
THE FABLE OF DRYOPE.[1]
FROM THE NINTH BOOK OF OVID'S METAMORPHOSES.
FOOTNOTES:
The violated myrtle ran with gore.--WAKEFIELD.]
No more a woman, nor yet quite a stone.--WAKEFIELD.]
And hung with humid pearls the lowly shrub appears.--WAKEFIELD.]
Dear husband, sister, father, all farewell.]
VERTUMNUS AND POMONA.[1]
FROM THE FOURTEENTH BOOK OF OVID'S METAMORPHOSES.
FOOTNOTES:
JANUARY AND MAY:
OR,
THE MERCHANT'S TALE.
FROM CHAUCER.
Among the characteristics of the "poor parson" Chaucer mentions that
JANUARY AND MAY:
OR, THE
MERCHANT'S TALE.
FOOTNOTES:
Consequently the married man
I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array.]
What thoughts he had beseems me not to say.]
THE WIFE OF BATH.
HER PROLOGUE.
FROM CHAUCER.
THE WIFE OF BATH.
HER PROLOGUE.
FOOTNOTES:
He is now in his grave and in his chest.]
Therefore no woman is of clerkes praised.]
THE TEMPLE OF FAME
WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1711.
THE TEMPLE OF FAME: A VISION.
ADVERTISEMENT
Chaucer's House of Fame is adorned with statues
FOOTNOTES:
THE TEMPLE OF FAME.
FOOTNOTES:
Salute the welcome sun and entertain the day.]
And harder glebe relents with vernal winds.--WAKEFIELD.]
And earth self-balanced on her center hung.--WAKEFIELD.]
And intermingled temples rise between.]
Where all that's done, though far removed, appears.]
Smooth the descent, and easy is the way.]
Eternal house not built with mortal hands.]
And pillars rough with sculpture pierce the skies.]
Charms in her wonted course can stop the moon.]
That watched the moon and planetary hour.]
The roof was fretted gold.--WAKEFIELD.]
A dragon's fiery form belied the god.--BOWLES.]
How o'er himself as o'er the world he reigns.]
Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull.--WAKEFIELD.]
And at each blast a lady's honour dies
Expel their parents and usurp the throne.]
Geffray, thou wottost well this, &c.--POPE.]
A "covercle" was the cover or lid of a pot.]
Still follow fortune where she leads the way.]
PASTORALS,
WITH A
DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL.
WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1704.
And list'ning wolves grow milder as they hear
FOOTNOTES:
A DISCOURSE
ON
PASTORAL POETRY.[1]
FOOTNOTES:
SPRING:
THE FIRST PASTORAL,
OR
DAMON.
TO SIR WILLIAM TRUMBULL.[1]
DAPHNIS.
STREPHON.
DAPHNIS.
DAMON.
STREPHON.
DAPHNIS.
STREPHON.
DAPHNIS.
STREPHON.[43]
DAPHNIS.
STREPHON.
DAPHNIS.
STREPHON.
DAPHNIS.
STREPHON.
DAPHNIS.
DAMON.
FOOTNOTES:
Sweet Thames run softly till I end my song.--WAKEFIELD.]
The winds within the quiv'ring branches played.--WAKEFIELD.]
Fresh as the month, and as the morning fair.--WAKEFIELD.]
Hos Corydon, illos referebat in ordine Thyrsis.--WAKEFIELD.]
The first edition of the Pastorals had
The grapes in clusters lurk beneath the vines.--BOWLES.]
And Roman triumphs rising on the gold.--WAKEFIELD.]
And echo, from the vales, the tuneful voice rebound.--WAKEFIELD.]
With spurning heels, and with a butting head.]
STREPHON.
DAPHNIS.
And lavish nature laughs.]
Et vitula tu dignus, et hic.--WAKEFIELD.]
SUMMER:
THE SECOND PASTORAL,
OR
ALEXIS.[1]
TO DR. GARTH.[2]
FOOTNOTES:
They dumb distress and new compassion show.]
And Pope had the imitation in his eye, not the original.--BOWLES.]
Such rage as winter's reigneth in my heart.]
And every herb that sips the dew.--WAKEFIELD.]
Formosam resonare doces Amaryllida silvas.--WAKEFIELD.]
Dryden's translation of the first line is
Frigidus, O pueri, fugite hinc! latet anguis in herba.--WAKEFIELD.]
Muscosi fontes--mossy fountains.--WAKEFIELD.]
Partem aliquam, venti, Divum referatis ad aures.--POPE.]
Me love inflames, nor will his fires allay.--POPE.]
AUTUMN:
THE THIRD PASTORAL,[1]
OR
HYLAS AND AEGON.
TO MR. WYCHERLEY.[2]
FOOTNOTES:
Beneath the shade which beechen boughs diffuse.--WAKEFIELD.]
There is nothing of the kind in the Greek text.]
Fade all ye flow'rs, and wither all ye woods.]
And climb the frozen Alps, and tread th' eternal snow.]
I know thee, Love! on mountains thou wast bred.
And the brown ev'ning lengthened ev'ry shade."
WINTER:[1]
THE FOURTH PASTORAL,
OR
DAPHNE.
TO THE MEMORY OF MRS. TEMPEST.[2]
LYCIDAS.
THYRSIS.
LYCIDAS.
THYRSIS.
LYCIDAS.
THYRSIS.
FOOTNOTES:
For winding streams that through the valley glide. Dryden.--WAKEFIELD.]
Walsh. "I think the last the best, but might not even that be mended?"]
And with fresh roses strew thy virgin urn.--STEEVENS.]
With cypress boughs the crystal fountains hide.--WAKEFIELD.]
See sable clouds eclipse the cheerful day.]
And hung with humid pearls the lowly shrub appears.--WAKEFIELD.]
The fields with faded flow'rs did seem to mourn.]
Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar, November, ver. 123, where
The painful bees neglect their wonted toil.--WAKEFIELD.]
And, swoln with tears, to floods the riv'lets ride.--WAKEFIELD.]
From juniper unwholesome dews distil.--WAKEFIELD.]
Love conquers all, and we must yield to love.--WAKEFIELD.]
MESSIAH,
A SACRED ECLOGUE:
IN IMITATION OF
VIRGIL'S POLLIO.
ADVERTISEMENT.
FOOTNOTES:
MESSIAH,
A SACRED ECLOGUE:
IN IMITATION OF
VIRGIL'S POLLIO.
FOOTNOTES:
Sicilian muse, begin a loftier strain--WAKEFIELD.]
But shed from nature like a kindly show'r.--STEEVENS.]
Yet of old fraud some footsteps shall remain.]
Talia saecla ... currite ...--WAKEFIELD.]
And finish what thy god-like sire begins--WAKEFIELD.]
Nunc quoque nec fugiunt hominem, nec vulnere laedunt.]
And troops of lions innocently play.]
A stream of glory, and a flood of day.--WAKEFIELD.]
Now waxing Phoebe filled her wained horns.--WAKEFIELD.]
WINDSOR FOREST.
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE GEORGE, LORD LANDSDOWN.
BY MR. POPE.
FOOTNOTES:
WINDSOR FOREST.
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
GEORGE LORD LANSDOWN.[1]
FOOTNOTES:
Now, sacred sisters, open all your spring.--WAKEFIELD.]
Bosomed high in tufted trees.--WAKEFIELD.]
Sir William Temple says of the forests on the continent that they
When winds in our ruined abbeys roar.--WAKEFIELD.]
At once the taker, and at once the prey.--WAKEFIELD.]
A stone pillar now marks the spot.--CROKER.]
If little things with great we may compare. Dryden.--WAKEFIELD.]
Now what avails his well-deserving toil. Dryden.--WAKEFIELD.]
This is a better line.--WARTON.]
The last expression is nobly descriptive.]
A gilded quiver from his shoulder sounds.]
Her briny tears augment the briny flood.]
And in truth they are but puerile and redundant.--WARTON.]
And paint those honours thou art sure to wear.--STEEVENS.]
Make warlike James's peaceful virtues known.--WAKEFIELD.]
The gods of rivers are invariably represented as old men.]
Where silver lakes with verdant shadows crowned.]
To the fair region where the sun does rise.]
END OF VOL. I.
BRADBURY, EVANS, AND CO., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.