W

ORK S

O F

JONATHAN SWIFT, p.D.

DEAN OF ST PATRICK'S, DUBLIN:

INCLUDING THE WHOLE OF HIS

Μους

POSTHUMOUS PIECES, LETTERS, &c.

A NEW EDITION,

ACCURATELY REVISED, AND ARRANGED IN THE MOST NATURAL AND PROPER ORDER;

WITH

An Account of the AUTHOR'S LIFE,

AND

NOTES HISTORICAL, CRITICAL, AND EXPLANATORY,

By J. HAWKESWORTH, XL.D. and others.

ADORNED WITH COPPERPLates.

V O L. VIII.

LONDON:

Printed for CHARLES ELLIOT, Edinburgh.

MDCCLX XXIV.

Edinburgh.

THE

CONTENTS.

MISCELLANIES IN VERSE.

N. B. Whatever verfes are marked with an afterisk pre-

fixed, are not Dr. Swift's.

A

Criticism on Swift's Mifcellanies in Verfe

Cadenus and Vanessa

Baucis and Philemon

Page

A defcription of a City-fhower. In imitation
of Virgil's Georgics

A defcription of the Morning

I

13

52

Horace, Epift. 7. Book 1. imitated, and addressed

to the Earl of Oxford, in the year 1713

Horace, Lib. 2. Sat. 6. part of it imitated

The Fable of the Bitches

St. Patrick's Address to the people of Ireland,

when he refigned his patronage

76

Verfes written in a Lady's ivory table-book

Mrs. Harris's Petition to their Excellencies the

Lords Fuftices of Ireland

A Ballad to the tune of the Cutpurse

Vanbrugh's House, built from the ruins of White

hall

The Hiftory of Vanbrugh's House

The Virtues of Sid Hamet the Magician's Rod 94

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81

87

88

93

Page

Atlas; or, The Minifter of State. To the Lord

Treasurer Oxford

The defcription of a Salamander. Out of Pli-

ny's Natural Hiftory, Lib. 10. c. 67. and

Lib. 29. c. 4.

* The Elephant; or, The Parliament-man.

Written many years fince. Taken from

Coke's Inftitutes

An Elegy on the supposed death of Partridge

* Verfes to be prefixed before Bernard Lintot's

New Mifcellany

-

*To Mr. John Moore, author of the celebrat-

ed Worm-powder

* Verfes occafioned by an &c. at the end of

Mr. D'Urfy's Name, in the title to one of

his Plays

98

99

102

103

106

107

108

110

113

* Prologue defigned for Mr. D'Urfy's laft

Play

*Prologue to The three Hours after Marriage 114

* Sandys's Ghoft; or, A proper New Ballad on

the new Ovid's Metamorphofes, to be tranf

lated by perfons of Quality

* Umbra

*Duke upon Duke. An excellent New Bal-

lad to the tune of Chevy-chace.

*Fragment of a Satire

*Macer

Sylvia; a Fragment

* Artemifia

115

118

119

124

127

128

ibid.

* Phryne

130

On Mrs. Biddy Floy'd; or, The Receipt to

form a Beauty

* Apollo outwitted. To the Hon. Mrs. Finch,

afterwards Countess of Winchelsea, under

her name of Ardelia

* Impromptu. To Lady Winchelsea. Occa-

fioned by four fatirical verfes on Women-wits

131

Stella's Birth-day, 1720

Stella's Birth day, a great bottle of Wine, long

buried, being that day dug up, 1722

Stella's Birth-day, 1724

Stella's Birth-day, March 13. 1726

* To Mrs. Martha Blount. Sent on her Birth-

day, June 15.

* Song. By a perfon of Quality

* Ballad

* Ode for Mufic. On the Longitude

134

ibid.

135

ibid.

145

ibid.

146

149

ibid.

150

* Epigram on the feuds about Handel and Bo-

noncini

* On Mrs. Tofts

* Two or three; or, A Receipt to make a

Cuckold

*

On a Lady who p-t at the Tragedy of Cato;

occafioned by an Epigram on a
an Epigram on a Lady who

wept at it

ibid.

Epigram in a Maid of Honour's Prayer-book 151

Epigram

ibid.

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