and against party-Spirit in writing. LVII. From Dr. Swift to Mr. Gay. Congratulation on Mr. Gay's leaving the Court; Lord Corn- bury's refufal of a penfion: Character of Mr. LVIII. From the fame. Concerning the writing of fables Advice about oeconomy, and provifion for old age; of inattention, etc. Poftfcript to LIX. From the fame to Mr. Gay, and a poftfcript to LX. From the fame, concerning the opening of letters LXII. From Mr. Pope and Dr. Arbuthnot to Dr. LXIII. From Dr. Swift. On the fame fubject. Of Mr.Pope's epiftles, and particularly that on the LXIV. From Mr. Pope, on Mr. Gay: His care of LXV. More of Mr. Gay, his papers, and epitaph. Of the fate of his own writings, and the pur- pofe of them. Invitation of the Dean to Eng- LXVI. From Dr. Swift. Of the paper called The LXVII. Of the Dean's Verfes, called a Libel on Dr. D. LXVIII. From Dr. Swift. On Mrs. Pope's death: In- vitation to Dublin. His own fituation there, LXIX. Anfwer to the former. His temper of mind LETTER Since his mother's death. The union of fenti- LXX. Concern for his abfence. Of a libel against LXXI. Melancholy circumstances of the feparation of LXXIII. Of the pleafures of his converfation: Of Dr. LXXIV. From Dr. Swift. On the death of friends. LXXVI. Concerning the Earl of Peterborow, and his LXXVIII. From Dr. Swift. On the death of friends. LXXIX. From the fame. His kindness for Mr. P. and LXXX. Mr. Pope to Dr. Swift. His plan for the fe LXXXI. From Dr. Swift. His refolution to preferve LXXXII. What fort of letters he now writes, and the LETTER man failings of great geniuses, and the allowance to be made them. His high opinion of Lord Bolingbroke and Dr. Swift as wri ters. LXXXIII. From Dr. Swift. Of old age, and death of friends. More of the Ethic Epiftles. LXXXIV. Of the complaints of friends. One of the beft comforts of old age. Some of his Letters copied in Ireland, and printed. - Of Lord Bolingbroke's retirement. Of fome new friends, and of what fort they are. LXXXV. The prefent circumftances of his life and his companions. Wilhes that the last part of their days might be past together. LXXXVI. From Dr. Swift. Reafons that obftruct his coming to England. Defires to be remembered in Mr. Pope's Epiftles. Many of Mr. Pope's letters to him loft, and by what means. LXXXVII. From Dr. Swift. Mention again of the chafm in the letters. Objections in Ireland to fome paffages in Mr. Pope's letters published in England. The Dean's own opinion of them. LXXXVIII. From Dr. Swift. Of his declining State of health. His opinion of Mr. P.'s Dialogue, intitled, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight. The intire collection of his and Mr. Pope's letters, for twenty years and upwards, found, and in the hands of a lady, a worthy and judicious relation of the Dean's.--- This a miftake; not in hers; but in fome other fafe hands. LETTERS to RALPH ALLEN, Esq. 1. Of the use of picture and sculpture, both for civil and religious purposes P. 320 II. Of a new edition of his letters, and the ufe of them 321 II. Of the cultivation of his own gardens 324 IV. Reflections on a falfe report concerning his own death V. On the Queen's death 325 326 VI. Concerning an object of their common charity 327 VII. His folicitude for his friends 328 LETTER VIII. An account of his ill ftate of health in his laft illnefs. LETTERS to Mr. WARBURTON. 329 1. His acceptance of the Commentary on the ESSAY ON MAN II. On the fame III. On the fame IV. On the fame V. On the fame P. 331 332 333 334 335 336 VI. His expectation of Seeing him in town VII. His opinion of the Divine Legation; and his defire to have the ESSAY ON MAN thought as favourable to the interefts of religion as of virtue 337 VIII. His project of procuring a profe tranflation of his Efay into Latin, and his approbation of a Specimen fent to him of it 339 IX. His chagrine on fomebody's having printed a new volume of his Letters in Ireland 341 X. His fatisfaction on the prospect of meeting his friend in town 342 XI. Acquainting him with his obligations to a noble Lord 343 XII. An account of his Project for adding a fourth book to the DUNCIAD XIII. Invites his friend to Bath XIV. On the fame Subject 344 345 347 XV. Relating to the projected edition of his Works 348 XVI. On the fame, and the fourth book of the Dunciad 349 XVII. On the fame 350 XVIII. On a noble Lord, who made profeffions of Service XIX. A character ef their common friend 351 his amufements in his garden, and folitude for the projected edition 352 XX. Defires his friend to correct the Effay on Homer 353 XXI. Thanks him for having done it 355 XXII. Account of the publication of the DUNCIAD 356 XXIII. Of his ill-ftate of health-The edition of his Works The laureat and the clergy ib. XXIV. The increase of his disorder, and the forefight of its confequences XXV. On the fame The laft Will of Mr. Pope 358 359 368 LETTERS MR. TO AND FROM GAY, From 1712 to 1732. You LETTER I. Binfield, Nov. 13, 1712. OU writ me a very kind Letter fome months ago, and told me you were then upon the point of taking a journey into Devonshire. That hindered my answering you, and I have fince feveral times inquired of you, without any fatisfaction; for fo I call the know ledge of your welfare, or of any thing that concerns you. I past two months in Suffex, and fince my return, have been again very ill. I writ to Lintot in hopes of hearing of you, but had no answer to that point. Our friend Mr. Cromwell too has been filent all this year; I believe he has been displeased at fome or other of my freedoms, which I very innocently take, and moft with thofe I think moft my friends. But this I know nothing of; perhaps he may have opened to you: and if I know * We fee by the Letters to Mr. Cromwell, that Mr. Pope was wont to rally him on his turn for trifling and pedantic criticifm. So he loft his two early friends, Cromwell and Wycherley, by his zeal to correct the bad poetry of the one, and the bad taste of the other. |