The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 7

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 VII.

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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, BAGSTER, J. HARDING, AND J. MAWMAN.

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1801.

Printed by Nichols and Son,
Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street.

CONTENTS

OF THE

SEVENTH VOLUME.

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	Page
ODE to Sir William Temple	3
Ode to the Athenian Society	10
Written in a Lady's Ivory Tablebook	21
Mrs. Harris's Petition	22
A Ballad on the Game of Traffick	27
A Ballad—To the tune of the Cut-purse	28
The Discovery	29
The Problem	31
The Description of a Salamander	33
To the Earl of Peterborow	35
On the Union	37
On Mrs. Biddy Floyd	38
Apollo Outwitted	ib.
Vanbrugh's House	41
The History of Vanbrugh's' House	45
Baucis and Philemon	47
Elegy on Partridge the Almanack Maker	53
His Epitaph	56
Merlin's Prophecy	ib.
A Description of the Morning	57
A Description of a City Shower	58
On the Little House by the Churchyard of Castlenock	60
The Virtues of Sid Hamet's Rod	62
Atlas, or the Minister of State	65
A Town Eclogue	66
The Fable of Midas	69
An excellent new Song on the Earl of Nottingham	71
The Windsor Prophecy	74
Epigram	76
Corinna	ib.
Toland's Invitation to Dismal	77
Peace and Dunkirk, an excellent new Song	80
Imitation of Horace, addressed to Lord Oxford	81
Imitation of Horace, Book ii. Sat. 6	86
The Author upon himself	92
The Faggot	95
Catullus de Lesbia	97
Epigram from the French	98
On a Curate's Complaint of Hard Duty	ib.
Cadenus and Vanessa	99
To Love	126
A Rebus, by Vanessa	127
The Dean's Answer	128
Horace, Book ii. Ode 1. paraphrased. To Mr. Steele	129
John Dennis's Invitation to Mr. Steele, in Imitation of Horace, Book i. Ep. 5.	133
To Lord Harley on his Marriage	138
In Sickness	141
The Fable of the Bitches	142
Horace, Book iii. Ode 2. sent to the Earl of Oxford in the Tower	144
Phyllis, or the Progress of Love	145
Ad Amicum eruditum Thomam Sheridan	148
Horace, Book iv. Ode 9. addressed to Abp. King	149
To Mr. Delany	150
A left-handed letter to Dr. Sheridan	154
A Motto for Jason Hazard	155
To Dr. Sheridan	156
Dr. Sheridan to Dr. Swift	157
The Dean's Answer	158
Stella's Birth Day, 1718-19	ib.
Ditto, 1719-20	159
To Stella, on transcribing his Poems	161
To Stella visiting me in my Sickness	166
An Elegy on the Death of Demar the Usurer	170
Epitaph on the same	171
To Mrs. Houghton of Beaumont	172
Verses written on a Window at the Deanery	ib.
On another Window	173
Apollo to the Dean	ib.
The Run upon the Bankers	177
The Description of an Irish Feast	179
An excellent new Song on a seditious Pamphlet	182
The Progress of Beauty	184
The Progress of Poetry	187
The South Sea Project	189
To A Friend, on being libelled	197
Epigram	ib.
Prologue by Dr. Sheridan	198
Epilogue by the Dean	199
The Country Life	201
Thomas Sheridan, Clerk, to George-Nim-Dan-Dean, Esq.	205
George-Nim-Dan-Dean's Answer	206
George-Nim-Dan-Dean's Invitation to Thomas Sheridan	208
Verses by Dr. Delany	211
Verses by Dr. Swift to Mr. T. Sheridan	213
On Dr. Sheridan's circular Verses	214
On Dan Jackson's Picture	215
On the same	216
On the same	217
On the same	ib.
Dan Jackson's Defence	218
Mr. Rochfort's Reply	220
Dr. Delany's Reply	222
Sheridan's Reply	224
A Rejoinder, by the Dean	225
Another Rejoinder, by the Dean	227
Sheridan's Submission, by the Dean	228
To the Rev. Daniel Jackson	229
To Dr. Sheridan, on his Art of Punning	231
Stella to Dr. Swift on his Birthday	232
Stella's Birthday, 1721-2	234
To the same, 1722-3	235
A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a General	238
Dean Smedley's Petition	239
The Duke's Answer, by Dr. Swift	243
Verses by Stella	244
Jealousy, by the same	245
Dr. Delany's Villa	ib.
On one of the Windows at Delville	247
Carberiæ Rupes	ib.
Translated by Dr. Dunkin	248
Upon the horrid Plot discovered by Harlequin	250
Stella at Wood Park	253
Birthday Verses on Mr. Ford	256
Joan cudgels Ned	568
A Quibbling Elegy on Judge Boat	ib.
Pethox the Great	263
Mary the Cook Maid's Letter to Dr. Sheridan	265
A New Year's Gift for Bec	267
Dingley and Brent	268
To Stella	269
On Dreams	271
Whitshed's Motto on his Coach	272
From Dr. Delany to Dr. Swift	273
The Answer	274
A quiet Life, and a good Name	276
The Birth of manly Virtue	278
Verses on the upright Judge who condemned the Drapier's Printer	282
On the same	283
On the same	ib.
Riddles	283—308
A Receipt to restore Stella's Youth	309
Stella s Birth-day, 1724-5	311
Epigram on Wood's Brass Money	313
A Simile on our Want of Silver	ib.
Wood an Insect	314
On Wood the Ironmonger	316
Will Wood's Petition	317
A new Song on Wood's Halfpence	319
A serious Poem upon Will Wood	322
To Dr. Sheridan	325
Dr. Sheridan's Answer	327
Dr. Swift's Reply	328
To Quilca	329
Upon stealing a Crown, when the Dean was asleep	330
The Dean's Answer	331
Ode on Science	332
Stella's Birth-day, 1726-7	333
Horace, Book i. Ode 14. paraphrased	336
Verses on St Patrick's Well	338
On reading Dr. Young's Satires	342
The Dog and Thief	344
Advice to the Grub Street Verse Writers	345
Epistle to a Lady	346
Palinodia. Horace, Book i. Ode 16	355
Bec's Birthday	357
On the Collar of Tiger	359
Epigrams on Windows	359—362
To Janus, on New-Year's Day	363
A Pastoral Dialogue between Richmond Lodge and Marble Hill	364
Desire and Possession	368
On Censure	370
The Furniture of a Woman's Mind	371
Clever Tom Clinch	373
Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope, while writing the Dunciad	374
A Love Poem from a Physician	375
Dean Swift at Sir Arthur Acheson's	377
On a very old Glass at Market Hill	378
Dr. Swift's Answer	ib.
On cutting down the old Thorn at Market-hill	379
My Lady's Lamentation and Complaint	382
A Pastoral Dialogue between Dermot and Sheelah	386
On the Five Ladies at Sot's-hole	389
The Five Ladies Answer	391
The Beau's Reply	392
The Journal of a modern Lady	393
A Dialogue between mad Mullinix and Timothy	402
Tim and the Fables	410
Tom Mullinix and Dick	411
Dick, a Maggot	413
Clad all in Brown	ib.
Dick's Variety	415
Dr. Swift to himself, on St Cecilia's Day	416
On Paddy's Character of the Intelligencer	417
Parody on a Character of Dean Smedley	418
Paulus; an Epigram. By Mr. Lindsay	420
The Answer	421
A Dialogue between an eminent Lawyer and Dr. Swift	425
On burning a dull Poem	427
An Epistle to Lord Carteret, by Dr. Delany	428
An Epistle upon an Epistle, from a certain Doctor to a certain Great Lord	432