Alexander Pope by Barnard John;

Author:Barnard, John;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Routledge

(e) Robert Dodsley, extract from An Epistle to Mr. Pope, Occasion'd by his Essay on Man (1734), pp. 4–5. Dodsley's poem appeared in November 1734.

So when at first I view'd thy wond'rous Plan,

Leading thro’ all the winding Maze of Man;

Bewilder'd, weak, unable to pursue,

My Pride would fain have laid the Fault on You.

This false, That ill-exprest, this Thought not good;

And all was wrong which I mis-understood.

But reading more attentive, soon I found,

The Diction nervous, and the Doctrine sound.

Saw Man, a Part of that stupendous Whole,

Whose Body Nature is, and God the Soul.1

Saw in the Scale of Things his middle State,

And all his Powers adapted just to That.

Saw Reason, Passion, Weakness, how of use,

How all to Good, to Happiness conduce.

Saw my own Weakness, thy superior Power,

And still the more I read, admire the more.

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