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Chapter 1 PILGRIMAGE IN SEARCH OF DO-WELL.
Chapter 2 AND III. THE MONK AND THE FRIAR.
Chapter 3 3
Chapter 4 4
Chapter 5 THE LONDON LACKPENNY.
Chapter 6 6
Chapter 7 7
Chapter 8 8
Chapter 9 9
Chapter 10 10
Chapter 11 11
Chapter 12 12
Chapter 13 13
Chapter 14 14
Chapter 15 15
Chapter 16 SATIRE ON THE SYDE TAILLIS-ANE SUPPLICATIOUN
Chapter 17 ON SIMONY.
Chapter 18 THE DOMESTIC TUTOR'S POSITION.
Chapter 19 THE IMPECUNIOUS FOP.
Chapter 20 AN INVECTIVE WRITTEN BY MR. GEORGE CHAPMAN
Chapter 21 THE CHARACTER OF THE BORE.
Chapter 22 THE NEW CRY.
Chapter 23 ON DON SURLY.
Chapter 24 THE CHARACTER OF HUDIBRAS.
Chapter 25 THE CHARACTER OF A SMALL POET.
Chapter 26 NOSTRADAMUS'S PROPHECY.
Chapter 27 THE SCOTS APOSTASIE.
Chapter 28 SATIRE ON THE DUTCH.
Chapter 29 MACFLECKNOE.
Chapter 30 EPISTLE TO THE WHIGS.
Chapter 31 INTRODUCTION TO THE TRUE-BORN ENGLISHMAN.
Chapter 32 SATIRE ON A CONCEITED PLAYWRIGHT.
Chapter 33 PREFACE TO JOHN BULL AND HIS LAW-SUIT.
Chapter 34 THE HISTORY OF JOHN BULL.
Chapter 35 EPITAPH UPON COLONEL CHARTRES.
Chapter 36 MRS. FRANCES HARRIS' PETITION.
Chapter 37 ELEGY ON PARTRIDGE.
Chapter 38 A MEDITATION UPON A BROOM-STICK.
Chapter 39 THE RELATIONS OF BOOKSELLERS AND AUTHORS.
Chapter 40 THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS
Chapter 41 THE COMMONWEALTH OF LUNATICS.
Chapter 42 SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S SUNDAY.
Chapter 43 TO THE RIGHT HON. MR. DODINGTON.
Chapter 44 THE QUIDNUNCKIS.
Chapter 45 THE DUNCIAD-THE DESCRIPTION OF DULNESS.
Chapter 46 SANDYS' GHOST;
Chapter 47 SATIRE ON THE WHIG POETS.
Chapter 48 EPILOGUE TO THE SATIRES.
Chapter 49 THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES.
Chapter 50 LETTER TO THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD.
Chapter 51 THE RETALIATION.
Chapter 52 THE LOGICIANS REFUTED.
Chapter 53 BEAU TIBBS, HIS CHARACTER AND FAMILY.
Chapter 54 THE JOURNEY.
Chapter 55 TO THE KING.
Chapter 56 ADDRESS TO THE UNCO GUID, OR THE RIGIDLY RIGHTEOUS.
Chapter 57 HOLY WILLIE'S PRAYER.
Chapter 58 A FAREWELL TO TOBACCO.
Chapter 59 LINES ON LEIGH HUNT.
Chapter 60 EPISTLE FROM LORD BORINGDON TO LORD GRANVILLE.
Chapter 61 REFORMATION OF THE KNAVE OF HEARTS.
Chapter 62 THE FRIEND OF HUMANITY AND THE KNIFE-GRINDER.
Chapter 63 SONG BY ROGERO THE CAPTIVE.
Chapter 64 THE DEVIL'S WALK.
Chapter 65 THE LETTERS OF PETER PLYMLEY-ON NO POPERY .
Chapter 66 THE POET OF FASHION.
Chapter 67 BOSSUET AND THE DUCHESS OF FONTANGES.
Chapter 68 68
Chapter 69 69
Chapter 70 70
Chapter 71 71
Chapter 72 72
Chapter 73 73
Chapter 74 74
Chapter 75 75
Chapter 76 76
Chapter 77 77
Chapter 78 78
Chapter 79 79
Chapter 80 80
Chapter 81 81
Chapter 82 82
Chapter 83 83
Chapter 84 84
Chapter 85 85
Chapter 86 86
Chapter 87 87
Chapter 88 88
Chapter 89 89
Chapter 90 90
Chapter 91 91
Chapter 92 92
Chapter 93 93
Chapter 94 94
Chapter 95 95
Chapter 96 96
Chapter 97 97
Chapter 98 98
Chapter 99 99
Chapter 100 100
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Chapter 49 THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES.

Published in January, 1749, in order, as was reported, to excite interest in the author's tragedy of Irene. The poem is written in imitation of the Tenth Satire of Juvenal.

Let observation, with extensive view,

Survey mankind from China to Peru;

Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife,

And watch the busy scenes of crowded life;

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