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Epistle to ROBERT, Earl of Oxford and Mortimer 287

JAMES CRAGGS, Esq. Secretary of State - 290

Mr. Jervas, with Mr. DRYDEN's Transla-

tion of FRESNOY's Art of Painting 292

Mrs. Blount, with the Works of Voi-

The same, on her leaving the town after the

The Basset TABLE, an Eclogue

Verbatim from Boileau

Answer to a Question of Mrs. How

Occasioned by some Verses of his Grace the Duke of

A Prologue to a Play for Mr. DENNIS's Benefit, in

1733, when he was old, blind, and in great dis-

tress, a little before his death

MACER, a Character

To Mr. John MOORE, Author of the celebrated Worm-

Song, by a Person of Quality, 1733

On a certain Lady at Court

On his Grotto at Twickenham, composed of Marble,

Spars, Gems, Ores, and Minerals

To Mrs. M. B. on her Birth-day

To Mr. Thomas SOUTHERN, on his Birth-day, 1742 331

+ Roxana, or the Drawing Room, an Eclogue 333

+ To Lady MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE

+ The Translator

+ The Looking-Glass

+ A Farewell to London in the

+ Lines added by Mr. Pope after the Conclusion of his

Address to Miss MARTHA BLOUNT, on her leaving

Town, “ As some fond Virgin,” &c.

+ Lines sung by DURASTANTI, when she took her leave

of the English Stage

+ Upon the Duke of Marlborough's House at Wood-

+ The Fourth Epistle of the First Book of Horace's

+ A Fragment, attributed by some to Pope, and by

others, to Congreve

+ Verses left by Mr. Pope, on his lying in the same

Bed which WILMOT, the celebrated Earl of Ro-

CHESTER, slept in, at Adderbury

+ The Challenge, a Court Ballad

+ The Three Gentle Shepherds

+ Mr. Pope's Welcome from Greece, a Copy of Verses

written by Mr. Gay upon Mr. Pope's having finished

his Translation of Homer's Iliad

+ Verses to Dr. BOLTON

I. On CHARLES Earl of DORSET, in the church

of Withyam in Sussex

II. On Sir WILLIAM TRUMBAL

III. On the Hon. SIMON HARCOURT, only Son of

Lord Chancellor HARCOURT; at the church

of Stanton Harcourt, in Oxfordshire, 1720 - 367

IV. On JAMES CRAGGS, Esq. in Westminster-abbey 368

V. Intended for Mr. Rowe, in Westminster-abbey 370

VI. On Mrs. CORBET, who died of a Cancer in her

VII. On the Monument of the Hon. ROBERT DIGBY,

and of his Sister MARY, 1727

VIII. On Sir GODFREY KNELLER, in Westminster-

SAPPHO TO PHAON.

VOL. II.

B

SAPPHO PHAONI*.

Ecquid, ut inspecta est studiosæ litera dextræ,

Protinus est oculis cognita nostra tuis ? An, nisi legisses auctoris nomina Sapphus,

Hoc breve nescires unde movetur opus? Forsitan et quare mea sint alterna requiras

Carmina, cum lyricis sim magis apta modis.

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NOTES.

* Ovid seems to have had the merit of inventing this beautiful species of writing epistles under feigned names. Though indeed Propertius has one composition of this sort, an Epistle of Arethusa to Lycortas, B. iv. Eleg. 3. It is a high improvement on the Greek Elegy, to which its dramatic form renders it much superior. The judgment of the writer must chiefly appear, by opening the complaint of the person introduced, just at such a period of time, as will give occasion for the most tender sentiments, and the most sudden and violent turns of passion to be displayed. Ovid may perhaps be blamed for a sameness of subjects, in these epistles of his heroines ; and his epistles are likewise too long; which circumstance has forced him into a repetition and languor in the sentiments. It would be a pleasing task, and conduce to the formation of a good taste, to shew how differently Ovid and the Greek Tragedians have made Medea, Phædra, and Deinaira, speak on the very same occasions. Such a comparison would abundantly manifest the fancy and wit of Ovid, and the judgment and nature of Euripides and Sophocles. If the character of Medea was not better supported in the Tra

Ver. 2. The force of Protinus is lost in the translation.

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