The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 18

by Jonathan Swift

THE

WORKS

OF THE

REV. JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D.,

DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S, DUBLIN.

ARRANGED BY THOMAS SHERIDAN, A.M.

WITH

NOTES, HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL.

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A NEW EDITION, IN NINETEEN VOLUMES;

CORRECTED AND REVISED

BY JOHN NICHOLS, F.S.A. EDINBURGH AND PERTH,

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VOLUME XVIII.

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LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, J. NICHOLS, R. BALDWIN, OTRIDGE AND SON, J. SEWELL, F. AND C. RIVINGTON, T. PAYNE, R. FAULDER, G. AND J. ROBINSON, R. LEA, J. NUNN, W. CUTHELL, T. EGERTON, CLARKE AND SON, VERNOR AND HOOD, J. SCATCHERD, T. KAY, LACKINGTON ALLEN AND CO., CARPENTER AND CO., MURRAY AND HIGHLEY, LONGMAN AND REES, CADELL JUN. AND DAVIES, T, BAGSTBR, J. HARDING, AND J. MAWMAN.

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CONTENTS

OF THE

EIGHTEENTH VOLUME.

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A TRUE Narrative of what passed at the Examination of the marquis de Guiscard	3
The present State of Wit	27
A learned Comment upon Dr. Hare's excellent Sermon, preached before the duke of Marlborough, on the Surrender of Bouchain	45
A new Vindication of the Duke of Marlborough	63
A true Relation of the several Facts and Circumstances of the intended Riot and Tumult on Queen Elizabeth's Birthday	85
The new Way of selling Places at Court	103
Some Reasons to prove that no one is obliged, by his Princiciples as a Whig, to oppose the Queen	115
A supposed Letter from the Pretender to a Whig Lord	135
A pretended Letter of Thanks from Lord Wharton to the Bishop of St. Asaph, in the name of the Kitcat Club	139
A modest Inquiry into the Reasons of the Joy expressed by a certain Set of People, upon the Spreading of a Report of her Majesty's Death	149
The Right of Precedence between Physicians and Civilians inquired into	171
Tatlers from vol. V	197
The Examiner, No. 46	211
Spectator, No. 575, passage in it by Swift	215
Character of Herodotus	216
Sketch of the Character of Aristotle	217
Remarks on the Characters of the Court of Queen Anne	218

LETTERS.

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To the Athenian Society	241
To miss Waryng	243
From the earl of Berkeley	249
From Mr. Addison	250
From Mr. secretary St. John	251
From lord Bolingbroke	ib.
To Mr. Wm. Draper	252
From a Quaker	253
From sir John Browne	254
To the rev. Mr. Wallis	260
To Mr. Pope	261
From a Quaker in Philadelphia	266
From the earl of Oxford	267
From Dr. Sheridan	269
From the rev. Marmaduke Phillips	270
From ******	273
From Dr. Sheridan	274
From an unknown gentleman	276
From Dr. Sheridan	278
From lord Oxford	279
To Dr. Sheridan	281
From Dr. Sheridan	284
From lord Howth	287
From Dr. Sheridan	288
To the archbishop of Cashel	291
To lord Howth	292
From lady Betty Germain	293
From Dr. King	295
From Mr. Motte	297
To Mr. Motte	298
To Mrs. Whiteway	ib.
From Mrs. Whiteway	301
From an unknown lady	303
To Mrs. Whiteway	304
From Mrs. Sican	306
From Mrs. Whiteway	308
To Mrs. Whiteway	311
From Mrs. Whiteway	313
To Mrs. Whiteway	315
From Mrs. Whiteway	317
To Mrs. Whiteway	318
From Mrs. Whiteway	321
From the same	323
To Mrs. Whiteway	326
From the earl of Orrery	328
From Dr. Sheridan	329
From the same	330
From Mr. Carter	332
From Dr. Sheridan	ib.
From the same	333
From the same	336
From the same	338
From the same	340
From lady Howth	342
Dr. Sheridan to Mrs. Whiteway	344
From Dr. Sheridan	345
To Mr. Richardson	347
To Mr. Gibson	350
To Mr. Richardson	ib.
To alderman Barber	353
To Mr. Richardson	356
From lord Mountjoy	359
To alderman Barber	360
To the same	362
To the same	365
Miss Richardson to Mrs. Whiteway	367
To Mr. Richardson	368
Mrs. Whiteway to Mr. Richardson	369
From Deane Swift	371
To alderman Barber	373
From the Chevalier Ramsay	374
Mrs. Whiteway to Mr. Richardson	375
Mr. Richardson to Mrs. Whiteway	377
Dean Swift and Mrs. Whiteway to Mr. Richardson	378
From Mr. Richardson	380
To the Society of the Governor and Assistants for the new Plantation in Ulster	381
To alderman Barber	382
Mrs. Whiteway to Mr. Richardson	383
The same to the same	385
From Dr. Scott	387
Mrs. Whiteway to Mr. Richardson	390
Robert Nugent, esq., to Mrs. Whiteway	392
Mrs. Whiteway to Mr. Richardson	393

ADDITIONAL POEMS.

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Ode to Dr. Wm. Sancroft, late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury	395
Ode to King William, on his Successes in Ireland	405
To Mr. Congreve	407
Occasioned by Sir Wm. Temple's late Illness and Recovery	415
Epitaph on the Earl of Berkeley	421
News from Parnassus. By Dr. Delany	422
Apollo's Edict: occasioned by the foregoing	425
The Dog and Shadow	427
Billet to a Company of Players	428
Answer to Dr. Sheridan's Prologue, and to Dr. Swift's Epilogue, in behalf of the distressed Weavers. By Dr. Delany	430
On Gallstown House. By Dr. Delany	432
On the great buried Bottle. By the same	433
Epitaph, by the same	434
Prometheus. On Wood's Halfpence	ib.
A young Lady's Complaint, for the Stay of the Dean in England	437
Epitaph on the Duke of Suffolk's Fool	438
Epitaph on General Gorges and Lady Meath	439
Verses on I know not what	440
Upon Carthy's threatening to translate Pindar	ib.
Epigram on Delacour's complimenting Carthy on his Poetry	441
Dr. Swift on his own Deafness	ib.
The Dean's Complaint translated and answered	442
Epigram on Vertiginosus. By Mr. Bowyer	443
Epigram intended to be placed under the head of Gulliver by the same	ib.
Inscription by Dean Smedley	444
Bouts rimés, on Signora Domitilla	445
Horace, Book IV, Ode XIX, addressed to Humphry French, late Lord Mayor of Dublin	447
An Invitation by Dr. Delany, in the name of Dr. Swift	450
Bettesworth's Exultation, upon hearing that his Name would be transmitted to Posterity in Dr. Swift's Works	451
Verses on two celebrated modern Poets	453
To the rev. Dr. Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's; a Birthday Poem; Nov. 30, 1736	454
Ay and No. A Tale from Dublin	456
An Answer to a Friend's Question	457
Epigrams, occasioned by Dr. Swift's intended Hospital for Idiots and Lunaticks	458
On the Dean of St. Patrick's Birthday; being on Nov. 30, St. Andrew's Day	459
On the Drapier. By Dr. Dunkin	462
A Riddle	463
Epitaph at Lee in Kent, on Wm. Pate, the learned Woollen-draper	ib.