# The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 8

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 VIII.
LONDON:
1801.
CONTENTS
OF THE
EIGHTH VOLUME.
| | Page |
| A LIBEL on Dr. Delany and Lord Carteret | 1 |
| To Dr. Delany on the Libels written against him | 7 |
| Directions for making a Birthday Song | 13 |
| Helter Skelter | 21 |
| The Puppet Show | 23 |
| The grand Question debated of Hamilton's Bawn | 26 |
| To Dean Swift by Sir Arthur Acheson | 33 |
| Drapier's Hill | 35 |
| The Dean's Reasons for not building on Drapier's Hill | 36 |
| A Panegyrick on the Dean | 39 |
| Twelve Articles | 50 |
| The Revolution at Market Hill | 51 |
| Traulus, a Dialogue | 55 |
| Robin and Harry | 60 |
| To Betty the Grisette | 62 |
| Death and Daphne | 63 |
| Daphne | 67 |
| The Pheasant and the Lark, by Dr. Delany | 69 |
| Answer by the Dean | 74 |
| On the Irish Club | 77 |
| The Progress of Marriage | 78 |
| An excellent new Ballad on the true English Dean | 84 |
| On Stephen Duck | 87 |
| The Ladies Dressing Room | 87 |
| The Power of Time | 92 |
| On Mr. Pulteney's being put out of the Council | 92 |
| Epitaph on the Duke of Schomberg | 94 |
| Cassinus and Peter | 95 ​ |
| A beautiful young Nymph going to Bed | 99 |
| Strephon and Chloe | 101 |
| Apollo, or a Problem solved | 111 |
| The Palace of the Damned | 112 |
| Judas | 113 |
| An Epistle to Mr. Gay | 114 |
| On the Irish Bishops | 119 |
| On the Death of Dr. Swift | 122 |
| Epistle to two Friends | 140 |
| Dr. Helsham's Answer | 142 |
| Epigrams on the Busts in Richmond Hermitage | 144 |
| Conclusion from these Epigrams, with Dr. Swift's Answer | 145 |
| To the Rev. Dr. Swift, by the Earl of Orrery | 145 |
| To the same, by Dr. Delany | 146 |
| The Answer by the Dean | 147 |
| The Beasts Confession | 148 |
| The Parson's Case | 156 |
| The Hardship upon the Ladies | 157 |
| A Love Song in the modern Taste | 158 |
| On the Words Brother Protestants, &c | 160 |
| The Yahoo's Overthrow | 162 |
| On the Archbishop of Cashel and Bettesworth | 165 |
| On Poetry, a Rhapsody | 166 |
| A new Simile for the Ladies, by Dr. Sheridan | 182 |
| Answer by Dr. Swift | 185 |
| A Vindication of the Libel, &c | 190 |
| A friendly Apology for Hartley Hutchinson | 192 |
| Ballad on Ballyspellin, by Dr. Sheridan | 194 |
| Answer by Dr. Swift | 197 |
| Horace, Part of Book i. Sat. 4, paraphrased | 199 |
| On a Printer's being sent to Newgate | 200 |
| The Day of Judgment | 201 |
| Verses sent to the Dean by Dr. Sican | 202 |
| On Psyche | 204 |
| The Dean and Duke | 205 |
| On Dr. Rundle, Bishop of Derry | 205 |
| Epigram on the same | 208 |
| The Legion Club | 208 |
| An Apology, &c | 216 |
| The Dean's Manner of Living | 221 |
| Verses made for Fruit Women, &c. | 221 |
| On Rover, a Lady's Spaniel | 224 |
| A Letter to Dr. Helsham | 226 |
| Epigram | 228 |
| To Dr. Swift on his Birthday, by Mrs. Pilkington | 228 ​ |
| On Dr. Swift | 229 |
| An Epistle to R. Nugent, Esq. with a Picture of Dr. Swift | 230 |
| Epitaph proposed for Dr. Swift | 234 |
| Epigram on Two Great Men | 234 |
| To the Memory of Dr. Swift | 235 |
| An Inscription intended for a Compartment in Dr. Swift's Monument | 238 |
| An Epigram occasioned by the above Inscription | 238 |
| Polite Conversation | 239 |
| Decree for concluding the Treaty between Dr. Swift and Mrs. Long | 372 |
| Proposal for the Regulation and Improvement of Quadrille | 375 |
| Advertisement for the Honour of Ireland | 381 |
| Blunders, Deficiencies, &c. of Quilca | 383 |
| Ars Punica, sive Flos Linguarum; the Art of Punning; or, the Flower of Languages; in Seventy-nine Rules: for the farther Improvement of Conversation, and Help of Memory | 387 |
| The Original of Punning, from Plato's Symposiacks | 427 |
| From my much-honour'd Friend at Heldelville [Dr. Delany] | 429 |
| The History of Poetry, in a Letter to a Friend | 430 |
| An Essay on English Bubbles | 433 |
An Introduction to Polite Conversation Polite Conversation - Dialog I. Polite Conversation - Dialog II. Polite Conversation - Dialog III.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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