CONTENTS. PAGE AMHURST (1697-1742); NICHOLAS 186-193 Anonymous Poems 37, 94, 95, 97-99, 121-123, 130, 147-149, 178-180, BAILLIE (1665-1746); Lady GRISSEL (HUME, afterwards) 202, 203 CHUDLEIGH (1656–1710); MARY (LEE, afterwards) Lady CIBBER, Poet Laureate (1671-1757); COLLEY [=THEOPHILUS] COCKBURN (1679-1749); CATHARINE (TROTTER, afterwards) CONGREVE (1670-1729); WILLIAM . CONWAY, Countess of HERTFORD (1726-1782); ISABELLA ELLWOOD, of the Society of Friends (1639-1713); THOMAS 142 HOWARD, Earl of SUFFOLK (1671-1731); EDWARD LEVERIDGE (1670-1758); RICHARD LYTTELTON, Lord LYTTELTON (1709-1773); GEORGE MILLER (1706-1744); Rev. JAMES MORDAUNT, Earl of PETERBOROUGH (1658-1735); CHARLES MOTTEUX (1660-1718); PIERRE ANTOINE PAGET, Lord PAGET (1689–1742); THOMAS CATESBY THE POPE ANTHOLOGY. 1701-1744 A.D. ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT. [HENRIETTA HOWARD, COUNTESS OF SUFFOLK.] I KNOW the thing that 's most uncommon! (ENVY, be silent; and attend! I know a reasonable woman; Handsome and witty, yet a friend! Not warped by passion, awed by rumour; Not grave through pride, or gay through folly; An equal mixture of good humour And sensible soft melancholy. 'Has she no faults then,' ENVY says, 'Sir?' When all the World conspires to praise her; ODE ON SOLITUDE. The [This imitation of HORACE's Ode, Beatus integer, &c., was written in 1700, when young ALEXANDER POPE was not twelve years old. present is his revised text of 1736.]_ HAPPY the man! whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound; Content to breathe his native air In his own ground: Whose herds, with milk; whose fields, with bread; Blest! who can unconcern'dly find Sound sleep by night; study and ease Thus, let me live, unseen! unknown! Steal from the world; and not a stone |