Copy 1, Volume 3

The works of Alexander Pope, esq. with notes and illustrations by himself and others. To which are added a new life of the author, an estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks / by William Roscoe. Esq.

  • Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
Date:
1824
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Credit: The works of Alexander Pope, esq. with notes and illustrations by himself and others. To which are added a new life of the author, an estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks / by William Roscoe. Esq. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Stretch’d on the lawn his second hope survey, At once the chaser, and at once the prey: Lo Rufus, tugging at the deadly dart, Bleeds in the forest like a wounded hart. Succeeding monarchs heard the subjects’ cries, 85° Nor saw displeas’d the peaceful cottage rise : Then gathring flocks on unknown mountains fed, O’er sandy wilds were yellow harvests spread, The forest wonder’d at th’ unusual grain, And secret transports touch’d the conscious swain. NOTES. a revolution more destructive, or attended with a more complete subjection of the ancient inhabitants. Warton. The circumstance of William’s laying waste so much territory is very doubtful. I believe the fact can be disproved. Bowles. Ver. 81. second hope.| Richard, second son of William the Conqueror. Warburton. Ver. 83.] The moment Walter Tyrrel had shot him, without speaking of the accident, he instantly hastened to the sea-shore and embarked for France, and from thence hurried to Jerusalem to do penance for his involuntary crime. The body of Rufus was found in the forest by a countryman, whose family are still said to be living near the spot, and was buried, without any pomp, before the altar of Winchester cathedral, where the monument still remains. Though the Monkish historians, who hated him, may perhaps have exaggerated his vices, yet he seems really to have been a violent, prodigal, proud, perfidious, ungenerous, and tyrannical prince. There was however something of magnificence in his building the Tower, Westminster-hall, and London-bridge. Warton. The oak, under which Rufus was shot, was standing till within these few years. Bowles. IMITATIONS. Ver. 89. “ Miraturque novas frondes et non sua poma.” Virg.