The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 8

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 VIII.

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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.

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

CONTENTS

OF THE

EIGHTH VOLUME.

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	Page
A LIBEL on Dr. Delany and Lord Carteret	1
To Dr. Delany on the Libels written against him	7
Directions for making a Birthday Song	13
Helter Skelter	21
The Puppet Show	23
The grand Question debated of Hamilton's Bawn	26
To Dean Swift by Sir Arthur Acheson	33
Drapier's Hill	35
The Dean's Reasons for not building on Drapier's Hill	36
A Panegyrick on the Dean	39
Twelve Articles	50
The Revolution at Market Hill	51
Traulus, a Dialogue	55
Robin and Harry	60
To Betty the Grisette	62
Death and Daphne	63
Daphne	67
The Pheasant and the Lark, by Dr. Delany	69
Answer by the Dean	74
On the Irish Club	77
The Progress of Marriage	78
An excellent new Ballad on the true English Dean	84
On Stephen Duck	87
The Ladies Dressing Room	87
The Power of Time	92
On Mr. Pulteney's being put out of the Council	92
Epitaph on the Duke of Schomberg	94
Cassinus and Peter	95
A beautiful young Nymph going to Bed	99
Strephon and Chloe	101
Apollo, or a Problem solved	111
The Palace of the Damned	112
Judas	113
An Epistle to Mr. Gay	114
On the Irish Bishops	119
On the Death of Dr. Swift	122
Epistle to two Friends	140
Dr. Helsham's Answer	142
Epigrams on the Busts in Richmond Hermitage	144
Conclusion from these Epigrams, with Dr. Swift's Answer	145
To the Rev. Dr. Swift, by the Earl of Orrery	145
To the same, by Dr. Delany	146
The Answer by the Dean	147
The Beasts Confession	148
The Parson's Case	156
The Hardship upon the Ladies	157
A Love Song in the modern Taste	158
On the Words Brother Protestants, &c	160
The Yahoo's Overthrow	162
On the Archbishop of Cashel and Bettesworth	165
On Poetry, a Rhapsody	166
A new Simile for the Ladies, by Dr. Sheridan	182
Answer by Dr. Swift	185
A Vindication of the Libel, &c	190
A friendly Apology for Hartley Hutchinson	192
Ballad on Ballyspellin, by Dr. Sheridan	194
Answer by Dr. Swift	197
Horace, Part of Book i. Sat. 4, paraphrased	199
On a Printer's being sent to Newgate	200
The Day of Judgment	201
Verses sent to the Dean by Dr. Sican	202
On Psyche	204
The Dean and Duke	205
On Dr. Rundle, Bishop of Derry	205
Epigram on the same	208
The Legion Club	208
An Apology, &c	216
The Dean's Manner of Living	221
Verses made for Fruit Women, &c.	221
On Rover, a Lady's Spaniel	224
A Letter to Dr. Helsham	226
Epigram	228
To Dr. Swift on his Birthday, by Mrs. Pilkington	228
On Dr. Swift	229
An Epistle to R. Nugent, Esq. with a Picture of Dr. Swift	230
Epitaph proposed for Dr. Swift	234
Epigram on Two Great Men	234
To the Memory of Dr. Swift	235
An Inscription intended for a Compartment in Dr. Swift's Monument	238
An Epigram occasioned by the above Inscription	238
Polite Conversation	239
Decree for concluding the Treaty between Dr. Swift and Mrs. Long	372
Proposal for the Regulation and Improvement of Quadrille	375
Advertisement for the Honour of Ireland	381
Blunders, Deficiencies, &c. of Quilca	383
Ars Punica, sive Flos Linguarum; the Art of Punning; or, the Flower of Languages; in Seventy-nine Rules: for the farther Improvement of Conversation, and Help of Memory	387
The Original of Punning, from Plato's Symposiacks	427
From my much-honour'd Friend at Heldelville [Dr. Delany]	429
The History of Poetry, in a Letter to a Friend	430
An Essay on English Bubbles	433

Sections of ‘’Polite Conversation’’ (not listed in original)

An Introduction to Polite Conversation
Polite Conversation - Dialog I.
Polite Conversation - Dialog II.
Polite Conversation - Dialog III.