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Title: Motto
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Pope's Universal Prayer
Date(s): 1715
Manuscript: Lt 96
Contents: The final stanza of Alexander Pope's "Universal Prayer", urging praise of God, appended to James Merrick's "Benedicite"
Sender: Pope, Alexander
Recipient: Bethell, Hugh
Letters: 1
Date(s): [1744]
Location: BC MS Lt. q 15 Safe
Note: Failing health (shortly before death). Own doctor(s?) disagree with recipient's Yorkshire doctor Thompson. Has had and read "the Bishop's book". n.p. quarto, 2pp. Dictated, signature uncertain.
Title: Boetius, de Consol. Philos. Lib.3, Met.9, p.99
Author: Pope, Alexander
Date(s): 1703 or 1704 ?
Manuscript: Lt 16
Contents: Prayer to God as creator and source of reason, for inspiration, strength and
comfort. Translated from Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy, III.9. Cf.
BCMSV 1253.
Sender: Lyttelton, George
Recipient: Pope, Alexander
Letters: 6
Date(s): 4 Dec 1736 - 7 Nov 1741
Location: BC MS Lt 113
Title: On Voiture the French witt
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Pope
Date(s): 1712 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Extract from Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Miss Blount with the works
of Voiture", praising the French writer's unconventional wit, humour and
literary skill
Title: To the author of a poem entituled Successio
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Mr Pope
Date(s): 1712 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Satire on the dullness and small literary ability of Elkanah Settle
Title: Epitaph design'd for Mr Rowe in Westminster Abbey. To the memory of Nicholas
Rowe Esq. his wife erected this monument
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Mr Pope
Date(s): 1718
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Epitaph on Nicholas Rowe's monument in Westminster Abbey, praising him
Title: On silence, in imitation of the style of the late E. of R.
Author: Pope, Alexander
Date(s): 1712 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: On the place of silence in the history of the universe and in wordly affairs,
generally praising it, imitating "Upon Nothing" by John Wilmot, Earl of
Rochester. Lightly satirical.
Title: To a young lady under the name of Zephalinda on her leaving the town after
the coronation
Author: Pope, Alexander
Date(s): 1714
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: On a young woman (Teresa Blount) sad to exchange the flirtatious pleasures of
London town, after the coronation of George I, for the monotony of the
country, describing the life she might lead there
Title: Epitaph made on two lovers struck dead with one flash of lightning as they
were at work in the fields near Oxford
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Mr Pope
Date(s): 1718
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Epitaph on John Hewet and Sarah Drew of Stanton Harcourt, two lovers killed
simultaneously by lightning when harvesting, praising their virtue
Title: A version of the first psalm for the use of a young lady
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 1716 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 35
Contents: Facetious advice to young women on gaining good husbands by shunning
wantonness, parodying Thomas Sternhold's translation of Psalm 1
Title: Messiah. A sacred eclogue.
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Mr Pope; [Bible]
Date(s): 1712 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem joyfully anticipating the birth of Christ, based on passages
from Isaiah; imitating Virgil's fourth Pastoral, or Eclogue