The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 12/From M. Adelmar Cæsar to Jonathan Swift - 1

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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, Volume 12
 (1732)
by M. Adelmar Cæsar, edited by Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, John Boyle, Patrick Delany, John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift, William Bowyer, John Birch, and George Faulkner
From Mrs. Cæsar
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1554668The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, Volume 12
— From Mrs. Cæsar1732M. Adelmar Cæsar
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FROM MRS. CÆSAR.[1]


AUG. 6, 1732.


PERMIT me to congratulate you upon the return of Mrs. Barber, with thanks for pleasures enjoyed in her company; for had she not come recommended by the dean of St. Patrick's, likely I had passed her by unheeded, being apt to follow a good author, in shunning those of my own coat. But hold; I must look if it runs not from corner to corner, which I more fear than length. For Pope says, Though sometimes he finds too many letters in my words, never too many words in my letters. So with Mr. Cæsar's, and my best wishes, thou worthy, witty, honest dean, adieu.


  1. ↑ Wife to the treasurer of the navy during lord Oxford's administration, in the reign of queen Anne.
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