...Whigs and Tories : Was cheerful to his dying day; And friends would let him have his way. " He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad ; And show'd, by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much. That kingdom he had left his debtor, I wish...

...mischievous results.* Fig. 2 represents the head of a child some • Dean Swift, to use his own words, " Gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad," Ac. And in this same " house" in Dublin, about a century since, several insane 1854.] Chronic Hydrocepludus....

...sufficient to maintain. It is evident from Swift's writings, that he conccived the idea of giving . . . the little wealth he had, To build a house for fools and mad, so early as 1731, when he wrote the celebrated and characteristic verses on his own death. In the following...

...missed his aim, The world must own it to their shame, The praise is his, and theirs the blame. He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad; To show, by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much. That kingdom he hath left his debtor; I...

...missed his aim, The world must own it to their shame, The praise is his, and theirs the blame. He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad; To show, by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much. That kingdom he hath left his debtor, I...

...anticipation of his own fate. He himself assigned another reason. He says in his poem on his own death : — " He left the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad, To show by one satiric touch, No nation needed it ao much." The reputation of Swift has suffered from...

...death. He outlived his greatness, and became a drivelling idiot. He made a strange will. " He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad ; And showed by one satiric touch No nation wanted it so much." The river Liffey, so much boasted of by patriotic...

...of the sad catastrophe which was destined to overshadow the sun of his genius. He left, as he says, "The little wealth he had, To build a house for fools and mad ; To show by one satiric touch No nation wanted it so much." Smart, the translator of Horace, and Alexander...

...also wrote some tolerably well-known lines, which are now widely quoted and singularly apropos : — He left the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad, To show by one satiric touch No nation wanted it so much." The "\Enalish" Independent, March 4, had...

...to the relief of the insane has been found in the great Dean's disposition of his property : — " He left the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad ; To show by one satiric touch No nation needed it so much ; " but the grotesque ingenuity which pilfers...