...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 so much." The paper of " Resolutions," of which a...

...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; 480 And showed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much. That kingdom he had left his debtor,...

...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 ; 4 And showed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much. That kingdom he had left his debtor,...

...to the fact that he bequeathed his property to found a hospital for idiots and lunatics : " 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." Another epigram, in which Swift reflected...

...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; 480 And show'd by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much." STELLA'S BIRTHDAY, MARCH 13, 1726...

...was never known, But what he writ was all his own. And the allusion to Swift's Hospital from, 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. The other public bust is even more world-famous,...

...was never known, But what he writ was all his own. And the allusion to Swift's Hospital from, 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. The other public bust is even more world-famous,...

...of 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 showed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much. That kingdom he had left his debtor, I wish...

...anality. Fortunately Swift is not himself speechless in the face of these accusations of insanity: He gave the little Wealth he had To build a House for Fools and Mad.1' In Dr. Swift's mental hospital there is a room for Huxley and Murry; their religious eccentricities...

...perhaps we have grounds for viewing Swift — a writer who was preoccupied with tales of madness and who left "the little Wealth he had, / To build a House for Fools and Mad" — in similar terms. Compelled, as his age was, to confine the watery world of madness within the...