LONDON:

GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS,

ST. JOHN'S SQUARE.

CONTENTS

OF

THE THIRD VOLUME.

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ODE on St. Cecilia's Day

Two CHORUSES to the Tragedy of Brutus

THE DYING CHRISTIAN to his Soul

ELOISA TO ABELARD

EPISTLES

To Mr. Addison on his Dialogues on Medals

To Robert, Earl of Oxford, prefixed to Parnelle's poems

To James Craggs, Esq. Secretary of State.

To Mr. Jervas, with Dryden's Translation of Fresnoy

To Mrs. Martha Blount, on her Birth-day

To the same, with the Works of Voiture

To Mrs. Teresa Blount, on leaving Town

Verses to Mr. C., St. James's Place

PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES

Prologue to Mr. Addison's Tragedy of Cato

to Sophonisba

to a play for Mr. Dennis

Epilogue to Mr. Rowe's Jane Shore

MISCELLANIES

Lines occasioned by some Verses by the Duke of Buckingham

Macer, a Character

To Mr. John Moore, author of the celebrated Worm-Powder

Song, by a Person of Quality

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41

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49

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81

ib.

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84

On a certain Lady at Court

87

On his Grotto at Twickenham

To Mr. Gay, who had congratulated him on finishing his house and

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Verses on lying in the bed where the Earl of Rochester had slept at

VII. On the Hon. Robert Digby, and his sister Mary

VIII. On Sir Godfrey Kneller

IX. On General Henry Withers

X. On Mr. Elijah Fenton .

XI. On Mr. Gay

XII. Intended for Sir Isaac Newton

XIII. On Dr. Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester

ib.

XIV. On Edmund, Duke of Buckingham

115

XV. For one who would not be buried in Westminster Abbey

THE DUNCIAD, in four Books

A letter to the publisher, occasioned by the first correct edition of

the Dunciad

130

Martinus Scriblerus, his Prolegomena and illustrations to the

Dunciad, with the hyper-critics of Aristarchus .

139

I. Preface to the five first imperfect editions of the Dunciad

II. A list of books, papers, and verses, in which our author was

371

III. Advertisement to the first edition with notes, in quarto, 1729 381

IV. Advertisement printed in the Journals, 1730

383

V. Advertisement to the first edition of the fourth book of the

Dunciad, when printed separately in 1742

ib.

VIII. A parallel of the characters of Mr. Dryden and Mr. Pope

INDEX of Persons celebrated in this Poem