The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 17

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 XVII.

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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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1801.

M. Brown, Printer, St. John's square.

CONTENTS

OF THE

SEVENTEENTH VOLUME.

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MARTINUS Scriblerus, or the Art of Sinking In Poetry	1
His Virgilius Restauratus	65
His Essay on the Origin of Sciences	72
His Annus Mirabilis	84
Stradling versus Stiles	93
A Key to the Lock	99
Memoirs of P. P. Parish Clerk	120
The History of John Bull	133
On the Art of Political Lying	277
Reasons offered against examining Drugs	293
The humble Petition of the Colliers, Cooks, &c.	297
It cannot Rain but it Pours	302
Narrative of the Frenzy of John Dennis	308
An Account of the Poisoning of Edmund Curll	322
Farther Account of the Condition of Edmund Curll	329
Of the Circumcision of Edmund Curll	339
God's Revenge against Punning	346
A wonderful Prophecy	350
The Country Post	353
A faithful Narrative of what passed in London, &c.	358
Thoughts on various Subjects	373

POETRY.

The happy Life of a Country Parson	393
A Tale of Chaucer	394
The Alley; an Imitation of Spencer	395
The Capon's Tale	397
The Elephant, or the Parliament man	398
Verses to Bernard Lintot's new Miscellany	399
To Mr. John Moore, Author of the celebrated Worm Powder	401
Verses occasioned by an &c. after Mr. D'Urfy's Name	402
Prologue designed for Mr. D'Urfy's last Play	405
Prologue to Three Hours after Marriage	405
Sandys's Ghost	408
Umbra	411
Duke upon Duke	412
Fragment of a Satire	417
Macer	420
Sylvia	421
Artemisia	422
Phryne	423
Impromptu to Lady Winchelsea	424
Epigram	ib.
To Mrs. Martha Blount, on her Birthday	425
Song by a Person of Quality	426
Ballad on Nelly	427
Ode on the Longitude	429
Epigram on Handel and Bononcini	430
On Mrs. Tofts	ib.
Two or Three, or a Receipt to make a Cuckold	ib.
Epigram in a Maid of Honour's Prayer Book	431
The Balance of Europe	ib.
A panegyrical Epistle to Mr. T. Snow	432
A Ballad on Quadrille	435
Molly Mog	438
A new Song of new Similes	440
Newgate's Garland: on Jonathan Wild	443
Strephon and Flavia	445
The Quidnunckis	446
Ay and No; a Fable	448
The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch	450
Mary Gulliver to Captain Lemuel Gulliver	453
To Quinbus Flestrin	457
A gentle Echo on Woman	459
Epitaph on Chartres	461
Epigrams on Francis Chartres, &c.	462
Epitaph of By-words	463
Epigram from the French	ib.
Epitaph	ib.
Epigram on the Toasts of the Kit-Cat Club	464
To a Lady, with the Temple of Fame	ib.
Verses on Sir Richard Blackmore	465
Bounce to Fop	467
On the Countess of Burlington cutting Paper	470
On a certain Lady at Court	471
Inscription on the Picture of Mr. Pope	ib.
Inscription on the Picture of Dr. Swift	472
Testimonies respecting the Character of Dr. Swift	473