10. From the fame. His love of the Country. A Paflage in Tully, Of

Shakespear, and the Publication of Mr. Addison's Works

11. To the Bishop of Rochester

12. From the Bishop of Rochester. On a Character drawn by the Au-

thor

13. To the Bishop in the Country: Wishes for his Quiet

152

153

154

155

14 From the Bishop of Rochester, his defire of Quiet, and love of Books 156

15. An Invitation to Twickenham: The Vanity and Emptiness of the
World

An Answer to the former. His

Preparation for his burial Place in Weft-

ib.

16. From the Bishop of Rochester.

Diflike of great Men.

minster abbey

157

17. From the fame, on the fame Subject. The State of his Mind, and

the World's Miftake of his Character

159

19. The Duke of Marlborough's Funeral. The Author's Refolution

to keep clear of Flattery

18. From the fame. More concerning Men of Quality. Of Milton's

Manu'cript and Agonistes

160

161

20. From the Bishop of Rochefter. Anfwer to the former. Application

of fome Verfes of Horace to the Duke of Marlborough's Funeral,

21. From the Bishop of Rochefter in the Tower

162

163

22. The Answer

23 The Author's laft Letter to the Bishop of Rochester

24. From the Bishop of Rochester

25. On the Death of his Daughter

172

LETTERS to and from Mr. Gay, &c. from the Year 1712 to 1732.

LET. 1. The Author's Opinion of Mr. Gay's Merit and Modesty

2. His de fire to do him Service, and Advice as to the Study of Poetry

3. Concerning Painting. Mr. Gay's Poem of the Fan

173

174

175

4. To Mr. Gay on his return from Hanover after the Queen's Death.

Advice about Politics

5. After the Death of the Author's Father, and the Sale of his Eftate.

Mr. Gay's Poem to Mr. Lowndes, and his Expectations at Court 176

6. From Mr. Gay at Bath. On the remarkable Death of two Lovers

by Lightning, with their Epitaph

178

7. To Mr. Gay at Bath. The Commitment of the Bishop of Rochester

to the Tower

180

8. Of Difappointments from great Men. Friends commemorated

9. Affurances of Remembrance in Abfence

ib.

181

10, 11, 12. To Mr. Gay in a dangerous Sickness

13. On his Recovery, and Mr. Congreve's Death

14. To the Hon. Mrs.

15. Excufe for not writing. Of Mr. Fenton's Death

182

184

185

ib.

16. A Congratulation to Mr. Gay, on the End of his Expectations at

Court, &c.

17. From Mr. Gay in the County. Thoughts of buying a Farm,

and about the Dunciad

4

186

187

18. To

18. To Mr. Gay in the Country, Wishes to ferve him

19. Complaints of his Absence, and fome Envy at his Situation

20. The Author more and more inclined to Retirement

21. More of the fame. Concern for his Friend's Abfence, &c.

22. Defiring him to return to Town, and resume the Study of Poetry.
The State of Wit at that Time

23. Of the fame Subject. The Death of Wilkes the Player, &c.

24. From Mr. Gay. His ill State of Health, &c.

25. From Mr. Cleland to Mr. Gay

26. Mr. Pope to the Earl of Burlington

188

189

191

192

ib.

194

195

27. The Author's bad Health, Complaints of Abfence, and fome Ad-

vice to his Friend

28. On the Death of Mr. Gay, his Mother's Illness, &c.

29. To Hugh Bethel, Efq. Praise of Humanity and Good-nature

30. To the fame. On the Death of the Earl of C-

31 On his Mother's Recovery; the melancholy Offices of Friends.

Profpect of the Town on the Death of the King

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کور

199

200

201

203

204

205

208

32. On the publishing his Letters. The Situation of the Author, &c. 207

33. To the Earl of Peterborow. His love of gardening, &c.

34. From the Earl of Peterborow. Stowe-gardens. Temper of Wo-

men. His love of Laz nefs, and the Reason

209

35. Answer to the former

210

36. From the Earl of Peterborow. His Dislike of coming to Town.

The charitable Corporation

211

37. From the Earl of Peterborow, from his Garden. His Idea of the

Golden Age, and unwillingness to come to Towǹ

212

38. From the fame. Defire to see Dr. Swift. Alteration in his Paf-

fions, and from whence

213

39. From Dr. Swift to the Earl of Peterborow

214

40. A Confultation about designing a Garden

215

41. To Mr. C. Expoftulatory on the Hardships done an un-

happy Lady, &c.

47. From Dr. Arbuthnot in his laft Sickness. His dying Request to

the Author

223

48. The Anfwer

ib.

The Character of Katharine, late Duchess of Buckinghamshire and Nor-

manby

227

Mr. Pope to James Moyfer, of Beverly, Efq.

229

A Letter to a Noble Lord, on Occafion of fome Libels written and

propagated at Court, in the Year 1732-3,

231

LET-

LETTERS to and from Dr. Jonathan Swift, &c. from the Year 1914

1737.

LET. I. To Dr. Swift, retired from Court fome Months before the

Queen's Death

4. From Dr. Swift at Dublin. How little he cares to think of Eng-
land. Concern at the Violence of Party, &c.

245

248

3. Mr. Pope's Love and Memory of Dr. Swift. The Calumnies and

Slanders upon him on Ascount of Religion, turned into Raillery 249

4. Dr. Swift's Anfwer. His Enquir, concerning Mr. P's Principles.

Poets generally follow the Court. Raillery on the Subject of his

Enemies, and his Religion. A Quaker Pastoral, and a Newgate

Paftoral, proposed as Subjects for Mr. Gay

5. Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope. An Apology for his Conduct and Writings

after the Queen's Death; with an Account of his Principles in Po-

litics

6. Dr. Swift to Mr. Gay

250

252

261

7. Mr. Pope to Dr. Swift, occafioned by the former. An Account of

his Conduct and Maxims in general

263

8. From the L. Bolingbroke,ļa Pofticript to the foregoing Letter, with

fome Account of his own Sentiments and Situation in private Life 265

9. Dr. Swift's Anfwer

268

10. From Mr. Pope to Dr. Swift. An Invitation to England

11. From Dr. Swift. Of Gulliver's Travels, and his Scheme of Mis-

anthropy

270

271

12 To Dr. Swift. Character of fome of his Friends in England, &c. 273

13. Dr. Swift's Anfwer. Death of Lord Oxford's Sen. Something

concerning Phs, &c.

276

14. Expectations of Dr. Swift's Journey to England, &c.

278

15. From Dr. Swift preparing to leave England again

279

16. Answer from Mr. Pope. The Regret of his Departure, Remem-

brance of the Satisfaction paft, &c.

280

17 Defires for his Return, and Settlement in England, &c.

281

18. From Mr. Gay and Mr. Pope.

An Account of the Reception of

Gullive's Travels in England

283

19. On the fame Subject, from Mr. Pope. Advice against Party-

writing

285

20. From Dr. Swift. About Gulliver, and of a fecond Journey to

21. From the fame. Concerning Party and Dependency; and of the

Project of a joint Volume of Mifcellanies

26 From Mr. Gay. Raillery: what Employment was offered him at

Court, and why he refufed it

294

295

27. Dr. Swift to Mr. Gay. On the Refufal of that Employment, and

his quitting the Court. Of the Beggar's Opera

28. From Lord Bolingbroke and Mr. Pope. Of the Dunciad. Ad-

vice to the Dean in the Manner of Moutaigne, &c.
298

29. Of a true Jonathan Gulliver in New England. The Dunciad, and

the Treatife of the Bathos. Reflections on Mortality and Decay 299

30. From Dr. Swift. Answer to the former. His Situation in Ireland 30t

His own and Mr. Pope's Temper.

302

31. From the fame.

32. Lo d Bolingbroke's Life in the Country. More about the Dunciad 304

33. From Dr. Swift. Advice how to publish the Dunciad. Concerning

Lord B. and Mr. Gay

34 From Bath. The Pleasure of being abused in Company with worthy

305

306

Men

35. From Dr. Swift. His Manner of living with a Friend in the Coun-

try. The Death of Mr. Congreve, &c.

308

36. Dr. Swift to Lord Bolingbroke. Exhortation to him to write Hif-

tory. The Dean's Temper, his prefent Amufements, &c.

37. From the fame on the fame Subjects, and concerning Oeconomy;

his Sentiments on the Times, &c.

309

311

38. From the fame. His Condition. The State of Ireland. Character

of Mr. Pope: Reflections on Mr. Pope and Mr. Gay's Circum-

ftances

314

315

317

39. Mr. Pope's Answer. His Situation and Contentment, &c.

40. Lord Bolingbroke to Dr. Swift. A Review of his Life, &c.

41. Dr. Swift's Answer. The Misfortunes attending great Talents, &c. 320

42. Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope concerning the Dunciad, and of his Situa-

tion of Life

321

43.

From Lord B.

That the Senfe of Friendship inereafes with in-

&c.

e cafe of Years,

44. Of the Style of his Letters, of his Condition of Life, &c.

45. Of Mr. Weftley's Differtations on Job. Poftfcript by Lord B.

on the Pleasure we take in reading Letters

322

324

327

46. From Lord B. to Dr. Swift. Inviting him to England, &c.
47. From the fame. The Temper proper to Men in Years. An Ac-
count of his own. The Character of his Lady. Poftfcript by Mr.
Pope on his Mother, and the Effects of the tender Pations

48. From the fame. Of his Studies, particularly a metaphyfical Work.

Of Retirement and Exercise. Poftfcript by Mr. Pope. His

With that their Studies were united in fome Work ufeful to Man-

ners, and his distake of all party Writings

318

320

331

LETTERS of Dr. Swift to Mr. Gay, from the Year 1729 to 1732.

52. In the fame Style to Mr. Gay and the Duchefs..

33.9*

53. A frange End of a Law-fuit. His Way of Life, &c.

348

54. Two new Pieces of the Dean's. Anfwer to his Invitation into

England. Advice to write, &c.

343

55. More on the fame Subjects. A happy Union against Corruption.

Poftfcript to the Duke of Q and to the Duchefs

345

56. Mr. Gay to Dr. Swift. His Account of himself; his laft Fables;

his Oeconomy, &c.

347

Congratulation on Mr. Gay's

57. From Dr. Swift to Mr. Gay.

leaving the Court. Lord Cornbury's Refufal of a Penfion. Cha-

racter of Mr. Gay.

58. From the fame. Concerning the writing of Fables. Advice about

Oeconomy and Provision for old Age; of Inattention, &c. Post

fcript to the Duchefs

59. From the fame to Mr. Gay, and a Poftfcript to the Duchefs

60. From the fame, concerning the opening of Letters at the Poft-

office. The Encouragement given to bad Writers. Reafons for his

not living in England. Poftfcript to the Duchefs; her Character.

Raillery on the Subject of Mr. Gay himself

350

352

354

356

61. From Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope. An Account of feveral lit: le Pieces

or Tracts published as his, which were or were not genuine

62. From Mr. Pop and Dr. Arbuthnot to Dr. Swift. On the fudden

Death of Mr. Gay

359

361

63. From Dr. Swift. On the fame Subject. Of Mr. Pope's Epiftles,

362

and particularly that on the Ufe of Riches

64 From Mr. Pope op Mr. Gay. His Care of his Memory and

Writings; concerning the Dean's and his own; and of several other

Things

65. More of Mr. Gay, his Papers, and Epitaph. Of the Fate of his

own Writings, and the Purpose of them. Invitation of the Dean

to England

66. From Dr. Swift. Of the Paper called the Life and Character of

Dr. Swift. Of Mr. Gay, and the Care of his Papers. Of a Libel

againft Mr. Pope, &c.

The fpurious

Character of him. Lord Bolingbroke's Writings. The Indolence

Men in Years

great

364

367

67. Of the Dean's Verfes,

called a Libel on Dr. D.

of

371

68. From Dr. Swift. On Mrs. Pope's Death, Invitation to Dublin.

His own Situation there, and Temper

272

69. Answer to the former. His Temper of Mind fince his Mother's

Death. The Union of Sentiments in all his Acquaintance

79. Concern for his Abfence. Of a Libel against him. Reflections

374

on the Behaviour of a worthless Man

Publishers of

71. Melancholy Circumstances of the Separation of Friends. Imper-

tinence of falfe Pretenders to their Friendship.

flight Papers. Of the Effay on Man, and of the Collection of

the Dean's Works. Poftfcript by Lord Bolingbroke, concerning

his metaphysical Work,

376

377

72, From