# The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 18

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.
A NEW EDITION, IN NINETEEN VOLUMES;
CORRECTED AND REVISED
BY JOHN NICHOLS, F.S.A. EDINBURGH AND PERTH,
VOLUME XVIII.
LONDON:
1801.
CONTENTS
OF THE
EIGHTEENTH VOLUME.
| | Page |
| A TRUE Narrative of what passed at the Examination of the marquis de Guiscard | 3 |
| The present State of Wit | 27 |
| A learned Comment upon Dr. Hare's excellent Sermon, preached before the duke of Marlborough, on the Surrender of Bouchain | 45 |
| A new Vindication of the Duke of Marlborough | 63 |
| A true Relation of the several Facts and Circumstances of the intended Riot and Tumult on Queen Elizabeth's Birthday | 85 |
| The new Way of selling Places at Court | 103 |
| Some Reasons to prove that no one is obliged, by his Princiciples as a Whig, to oppose the Queen | 115 |
| A supposed Letter from the Pretender to a Whig Lord | 135 |
| A pretended Letter of Thanks from Lord Wharton to the Bishop of St. Asaph, in the name of the Kitcat Club | 139 |
| A modest Inquiry into the Reasons of the Joy expressed by a certain Set of People, upon the Spreading of a Report of her Majesty's Death | 149 |
| The Right of Precedence between Physicians and Civilians inquired into | 171 |
| Tatlers from vol. V | 197 |
| The Examiner, No. 46 | 211 |
| Spectator, No. 575, passage in it by Swift | 215 |
| Character of Herodotus | 216 |
| Sketch of the Character of Aristotle | 217 |
| Remarks on the Characters of the Court of Queen Anne | 218 |
LETTERS.
| | Page |
| To the Athenian Society | 241 |
| To miss Waryng | 243 |
| From the earl of Berkeley | 249 |
| From Mr. Addison | 250 |
| From Mr. secretary St. John | 251 |
| From lord Bolingbroke | ib. |
| To Mr. Wm. Draper | 252 |
| From a Quaker | 253 |
| From sir John Browne | 254 |
| To the rev. Mr. Wallis | 260 |
| To Mr. Pope | 261 |
| From a Quaker in Philadelphia | 266 |
| From the earl of Oxford | 267 |
| From Dr. Sheridan | 269 |
| From the rev. Marmaduke Phillips | 270 |
| From ****** | 273 |
| From Dr. Sheridan | 274 |
| From an unknown gentleman | 276 |
| From Dr. Sheridan | 278 |
| From lord Oxford | 279 |
| To Dr. Sheridan | 281 |
| From Dr. Sheridan | 284 |
| From lord Howth | 287 |
| From Dr. Sheridan | 288 |
| To the archbishop of Cashel | 291 |
| To lord Howth | 292 |
| From lady Betty Germain | 293 |
| From Dr. King | 295 |
| From Mr. Motte | 297 |
| To Mr. Motte | 298 |
| To Mrs. Whiteway | ib. |
| From Mrs. Whiteway | 301 |
| From an unknown lady | 303 |
| To Mrs. Whiteway | 304 |
| From Mrs. Sican | 306 |
| From Mrs. Whiteway | 308 |
| To Mrs. Whiteway | 311 |
| From Mrs. Whiteway | 313 |
| To Mrs. Whiteway | 315 |
| From Mrs. Whiteway | 317 |
| To Mrs. Whiteway | 318 ​ |
| From Mrs. Whiteway | 321 |
| From the same | 323 |
| To Mrs. Whiteway | 326 |
| From the earl of Orrery | 328 |
| From Dr. Sheridan | 329 |
| From the same | 330 |
| From Mr. Carter | 332 |
| From Dr. Sheridan | ib. |
| From the same | 333 |
| From the same | 336 |
| From the same | 338 |
| From the same | 340 |
| From lady Howth | 342 |
| Dr. Sheridan to Mrs. Whiteway | 344 |
| From Dr. Sheridan | 345 |
| To Mr. Richardson | 347 |
| To Mr. Gibson | 350 |
| To Mr. Richardson | ib. |
| To alderman Barber | 353 |
| To Mr. Richardson | 356 |
| From lord Mountjoy | 359 |
| To alderman Barber | 360 |
| To the same | 362 |
| To the same | 365 |
| Miss Richardson to Mrs. Whiteway | 367 |
| To Mr. Richardson | 368 |
| Mrs. Whiteway to Mr. Richardson | 369 |
| From Deane Swift | 371 |
| To alderman Barber | 373 |
| From the Chevalier Ramsay | 374 |
| Mrs. Whiteway to Mr. Richardson | 375 |
| Mr. Richardson to Mrs. Whiteway | 377 |
| Dean Swift and Mrs. Whiteway to Mr. Richardson | 378 |
| From Mr. Richardson | 380 |
| To the Society of the Governor and Assistants for the new Plantation in Ulster | 381 |
| To alderman Barber | 382 |
| Mrs. Whiteway to Mr. Richardson | 383 |
| The same to the same | 385 |
| From Dr. Scott | 387 |
| Mrs. Whiteway to Mr. Richardson | 390 |
| Robert Nugent, esq., to Mrs. Whiteway | 392 |
| Mrs. Whiteway to Mr. Richardson | 393 |
ADDITIONAL POEMS.
| | Page |
| Ode to Dr. Wm. Sancroft, late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury | 395 |
| Ode to King William, on his Successes in Ireland | 405 |
| To Mr. Congreve | 407 |
| Occasioned by Sir Wm. Temple's late Illness and Recovery | 415 |
| Epitaph on the Earl of Berkeley | 421 |
| News from Parnassus. By Dr. Delany | 422 |
| Apollo's Edict: occasioned by the foregoing | 425 |
| The Dog and Shadow | 427 |
| Billet to a Company of Players | 428 |
| Answer to Dr. Sheridan's Prologue, and to Dr. Swift's Epilogue, in behalf of the distressed Weavers. By Dr. Delany | 430 |
| On Gallstown House. By Dr. Delany | 432 |
| On the great buried Bottle. By the same | 433 |
| Epitaph, by the same | 434 |
| Prometheus. On Wood's Halfpence | ib. |
| A young Lady's Complaint, for the Stay of the Dean in England | 437 |
| Epitaph on the Duke of Suffolk's Fool | 438 |
| Epitaph on General Gorges and Lady Meath | 439 |
| Verses on I know not what | 440 |
| Upon Carthy's threatening to translate Pindar | ib. |
| Epigram on Delacour's complimenting Carthy on his Poetry | 441 |
| Dr. Swift on his own Deafness | ib. |
| The Dean's Complaint translated and answered | 442 |
| Epigram on Vertiginosus. By Mr. Bowyer | 443 |
| Epigram intended to be placed under the head of Gulliver by the same | ib. |
| Inscription by Dean Smedley | 444 |
| Bouts rimés, on Signora Domitilla | 445 |
| Horace, Book IV, Ode XIX, addressed to Humphry French, late Lord Mayor of Dublin | 447 |
| An Invitation by Dr. Delany, in the name of Dr. Swift | 450 |
| Bettesworth's Exultation, upon hearing that his Name would be transmitted to Posterity in Dr. Swift's Works | 451 |
| Verses on two celebrated modern Poets | 453 |
| To the rev. Dr. Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's; a Birthday Poem; Nov. 30, 1736 | 454 ​ |
| Ay and No. A Tale from Dublin | 456 |
| An Answer to a Friend's Question | 457 |
| Epigrams, occasioned by Dr. Swift's intended Hospital for Idiots and Lunaticks | 458 |
| On the Dean of St. Patrick's Birthday; being on Nov. 30, St. Andrew's Day | 459 |
| On the Drapier. By Dr. Dunkin | 462 |
| A Riddle | 463 |
| Epitaph at Lee in Kent, on Wm. Pate, the learned Woollen-draper | ib. |
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