The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 by Alexander Pope
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Book the Fourth
Declaration by the Author APPENDIX-- I. Preface prefixed to the Five First imperfect Editions II. A List of Books, Papers, and Verses III. Advertisement to the First Edition IV. Advertisement to the First Edition of the Fourth Book V. Advertisement to the Complete Edition of 1743 VI. Advertisement printed in the Journals, 1730 VII. A Parallel of the Characters of Mr Dryden and Mr Pope Index of Persons celebrated in this Poem MORAL ESSAYS. The 'Essay on Man' was intended to have been comprised in four books:-- The first of which, the author has given us under that title, in four epistles. The second was to have consisted of the same number:--1. Of the extent and limits of human reason. 2. Of those arts and sciences, and of the parts of them, which are useful, and therefore attainable, together with those which are unuseful, and therefore unattainable. 3. Of the nature, ends, use, and application of the different capacities of men. 4. Of the |
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