LETTERS OF THE LATE ALEXANDER POPE - ADVERTISEMENT - THESE Letters, befides the zaiveti o f the ityle, the quick allies of an ingenious mind, and the graver obfervations of re fleaion and judgment, difcover the Writers Heart to have had a more amiable ienfibility, and to be tinQured with more good ners, than his other Writings of this fort do. IT-may be proper juR to men-J 4 tion, that the Originals of theie Letters are in Mr. Dodfleys Poffeffion. tv. 9 for all-things, - and above I - r . a a11 for our f iife 2dd - gemus in what ever ever degree we have it but to Fan- ., 4 . cy yourfelf indebted to at y t hing elfe, moves my anger at your modefly. The P c-I kgard I rnuR bear-you, Cerioufly pro ceeds from myfelf alone and I will npt iuffe even one I like fo much as Mrs. H. to have a fl are in caufing it. I challenge a kind of relation to you on the fouls fide, which I take to be r C . - 1 better than either on a fafhers or mothers and if you can overlook an . u gly body that Rands much in the . 1 way of any friendfhip, when it is be-.. - t weeq d - iE erent. fexes I hall hope to C - - f ind you a true and conR . a nt kincwo- man man in Apollo. Not that 1 would. place all my pretenfions upon that poetical foot, much leib confine theni , to it I am far more defirous to be admitted as yours., on the more meri t 4 torious title of friendfhip. I I avee ever believed thisoas a iacred maxim, that the . moft ingenious natures were the mofi fincere and the moIt knowing and Cenfible rniilds made the beit friends. Of all thofe that 1 have thought it the felicity of my life td know, I have ever found the moft difiinguiihed in capacity, the mofi diltinguifhed in morality and thok the mofk to be depended on, horn one - efteerned-h much ae to defirc they fhould be Co. I beg you to make me no more compliments.. I could make you a great manv, d but I know you. neither nsed them, nor cap like them be fo good as to think I do not. I11 one word, your writings are very good, and very entertninisg but not fb good, nor fo entertaining, as your life and converfation. One is but the eKe and emanation of the ather. It tvil always be a greater pleaiure t t me, to know you gre well, than that you write well, though. every time you tell me the one, I muit know the other. I am willing to fpaie your modeity and therefore, as to your writing, may perhaps never Gymore direaly to you rfelf than the few v . er - - f es I fend here which as a proof of my own modeity too l made fo long t ago as the day you fateforyour piflure, and yet never till now durR confers to you. Tho fprightly Sappho force our love and praife, A fofter wonder my pleasd foul furveys, The mild Erinna, blufhing in her bays. Sokphile the funs broad beam yet itrikes the f ght, AI1 mild appears the moons more fober light, Serene, in virgin majeity, h e mines v . . - And, un-obferved, the glaring fun declines. U . THE bhgh. tefk wit in the world, 1 without the better qualities of the h . . e art, n u f m i eet with this fate and t - e nds only to endear fuch a charaaer a . s I take yours to , be. In the better difcovery, and fuller conviaion of which, I have a itrong opinion, I h a l l grow more and more happy, the longer I live your acquaintance, and if you will indulge me in CO much i GuFfaithfu f l r iend, and moll L . obliged fervant, A. POPE. L ET Twitenharn, Nor. 5. H 0 U G-H I am extre-mely obliged by your agreeable - let-ter, I will avoid all mention of the pleafure you give nie, that we may have no more words . about compli- ments which I have often obfeerveki people tdk themfeives irito while -. r L . a L - they - X MR. P 0 P ES they endeavour to talk thernrelves out of...