Pope uses the term ‘moral’ surprisingly little, but when he does, his belief in a total divine, natural and moral order leads him to use it mainly in its narrow, conduct-prescriptive sense, as in the first quotation below, though occasionally in its wide, lifeexploratory sense, as in the second quotation:

In this third passage, I take it that ‘moral’ means something like Cowley's sense of and observations on human life: how he ‘sees’ it.

But if Pope's beliefs make his use of the word ‘moral’ itself not very interesting, there is an interesting doubleness in his conception of ‘integrity’, and also, I think, a developing complexity in his conception of what we might call (though not in J. S. Mill's restricted sense) poetic ‘arts of life’. By this I mean those ways of being alive that poems exhibit but which they also offer their readers, less as examples or ideal models of how to live, than as something rather like moral ‘touchstones’ (to borrow Arnold's term): necessarily particular, individual modes of life by which readers might better discern the nature and value of others' lives and especially of their own.