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Pope (ALEXANDER an English poet born)

ALEXANDER, an English poet; born in London, May 21, 1688. His father was a devout Catholic. Pope was small, delicate, and much deformed. His ALEXANDER POPE sults of these translations showed a total profit of nearly $45,000. In 1728 he published his "Dunciad," a mock heroic poem intended to overwhelm his antagonists with ridicule. This was followed by "Imitations of Horace" and by "Moral Epistles" or "Essays." His "Essay on Man" was published anonymously in 1733, and completed and avowed by the author in the next year. In 1742 he POPE added a fourth book to his "Dunciad."

Pope was vain and irascible, and seems to have been equally open to flattery and prone to resentment; yet he was kindto his friends, among whom he reckoned Swift, Arbuthnot, and Gay. His great weakness was a disposition to artifice to acquire reputation and applause. As a poet , no English writer has carried further correctness A large number of his letters were published in his own lifetime. He died in Twickenham, May 30, 1744.

POPOCATEPETL named had been appointed to all the high offices of the State, and that the extirpation of Protestantism was intended. On the strength of his allegation, various persons, including Viscount Stafford, were executed.

Gradually evidence arose that the whole story was a fabrication.

On May 8, 1685, Oates, who had received his revelations, was convicted of perjury, heavily fined, publicly flogged. He survived, making several attempts to exploit new plots, but deservedly despised.

Died in 1705.