# The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 7

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 VII.
LONDON:
1801.
CONTENTS
OF THE
SEVENTH VOLUME.
| | Page |
| ODE to Sir William Temple | 3 |
| Ode to the Athenian Society | 10 |
| Written in a Lady's Ivory Tablebook | 21 |
| Mrs. Harris's Petition | 22 |
| A Ballad on the Game of Traffick | 27 |
| A Ballad—To the tune of the Cut-purse | 28 |
| The Discovery | 29 |
| The Problem | 31 |
| The Description of a Salamander | 33 |
| To the Earl of Peterborow | 35 |
| On the Union | 37 |
| On Mrs. Biddy Floyd | 38 |
| Apollo Outwitted | ib. |
| Vanbrugh's House | 41 |
| The History of Vanbrugh's' House | 45 |
| Baucis and Philemon | 47 |
| Elegy on Partridge the Almanack Maker | 53 |
| His Epitaph | 56 |
| Merlin's Prophecy | ib. |
| A Description of the Morning | 57 |
| A Description of a City Shower | 58 |
| On the Little House by the Churchyard of Castlenock | 60 |
| The Virtues of Sid Hamet's Rod | 62 |
| Atlas, or the Minister of State | 65 |
| A Town Eclogue | 66 |
| The Fable of Midas | 69 |
| An excellent new Song on the Earl of Nottingham | 71 |
| The Windsor Prophecy | 74 |
| Epigram | 76 |
| Corinna | ib. |
| Toland's Invitation to Dismal | 77 |
| Peace and Dunkirk, an excellent new Song | 80 ​ |
| Imitation of Horace, addressed to Lord Oxford | 81 |
| Imitation of Horace, Book ii. Sat. 6 | 86 |
| The Author upon himself | 92 |
| The Faggot | 95 |
| Catullus de Lesbia | 97 |
| Epigram from the French | 98 |
| On a Curate's Complaint of Hard Duty | ib. |
| Cadenus and Vanessa | 99 |
| To Love | 126 |
| A Rebus, by Vanessa | 127 |
| The Dean's Answer | 128 |
| Horace, Book ii. Ode 1. paraphrased. To Mr. Steele | 129 |
| John Dennis's Invitation to Mr. Steele, in Imitation of Horace, Book i. Ep. 5. | 133 |
| To Lord Harley on his Marriage | 138 |
| In Sickness | 141 |
| The Fable of the Bitches | 142 |
| Horace, Book iii. Ode 2. sent to the Earl of Oxford in the Tower | 144 |
| Phyllis, or the Progress of Love | 145 |
| Ad Amicum eruditum Thomam Sheridan | 148 |
| Horace, Book iv. Ode 9. addressed to Abp. King | 149 |
| To Mr. Delany | 150 |
| A left-handed letter to Dr. Sheridan | 154 |
| A Motto for Jason Hazard | 155 |
| To Dr. Sheridan | 156 |
| Dr. Sheridan to Dr. Swift | 157 |
| The Dean's Answer | 158 |
| Stella's Birth Day, 1718-19 | ib. |
| Ditto, 1719-20 | 159 |
| To Stella, on transcribing his Poems | 161 |
| To Stella visiting me in my Sickness | 166 |
| An Elegy on the Death of Demar the Usurer | 170 |
| Epitaph on the same | 171 |
| To Mrs. Houghton of Beaumont | 172 |
| Verses written on a Window at the Deanery | ib. |
| On another Window | 173 |
| Apollo to the Dean | ib. |
| The Run upon the Bankers | 177 |
| The Description of an Irish Feast | 179 |
| An excellent new Song on a seditious Pamphlet | 182 |
| The Progress of Beauty | 184 |
| The Progress of Poetry | 187 |
| The South Sea Project | 189 |
| To A Friend, on being libelled | 197 |
| Epigram | ib. ​ |
| Prologue by Dr. Sheridan | 198 |
| Epilogue by the Dean | 199 |
| The Country Life | 201 |
| Thomas Sheridan, Clerk, to George-Nim-Dan-Dean, Esq. | 205 |
| George-Nim-Dan-Dean's Answer | 206 |
| George-Nim-Dan-Dean's Invitation to Thomas Sheridan | 208 |
| Verses by Dr. Delany | 211 |
| Verses by Dr. Swift to Mr. T. Sheridan | 213 |
| On Dr. Sheridan's circular Verses | 214 |
| On Dan Jackson's Picture | 215 |
| On the same | 216 |
| On the same | 217 |
| On the same | ib. |
| Dan Jackson's Defence | 218 |
| Mr. Rochfort's Reply | 220 |
| Dr. Delany's Reply | 222 |
| Sheridan's Reply | 224 |
| A Rejoinder, by the Dean | 225 |
| Another Rejoinder, by the Dean | 227 |
| Sheridan's Submission, by the Dean | 228 |
| To the Rev. Daniel Jackson | 229 |
| To Dr. Sheridan, on his Art of Punning | 231 |
| Stella to Dr. Swift on his Birthday | 232 |
| Stella's Birthday, 1721-2 | 234 |
| To the same, 1722-3 | 235 |
| A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a General | 238 |
| Dean Smedley's Petition | 239 |
| The Duke's Answer, by Dr. Swift | 243 |
| Verses by Stella | 244 |
| Jealousy, by the same | 245 |
| Dr. Delany's Villa | ib. |
| On one of the Windows at Delville | 247 |
| Carberiæ Rupes | ib. |
| Translated by Dr. Dunkin | 248 |
| Upon the horrid Plot discovered by Harlequin | 250 |
| Stella at Wood Park | 253 |
| Birthday Verses on Mr. Ford | 256 |
| Joan cudgels Ned | 568 |
| A Quibbling Elegy on Judge Boat | ib. |
| Pethox the Great | 263 |
| Mary the Cook Maid's Letter to Dr. Sheridan | 265 |
| A New Year's Gift for Bec | 267 |
| Dingley and Brent | 268 |
| To Stella | 269 |
| On Dreams | 271 ​ |
| Whitshed's Motto on his Coach | 272 |
| From Dr. Delany to Dr. Swift | 273 |
| The Answer | 274 |
| A quiet Life, and a good Name | 276 |
| The Birth of manly Virtue | 278 |
| Verses on the upright Judge who condemned the Drapier's Printer | 282 |
| On the same | 283 |
| On the same | ib. |
| Riddles | 283—308 |
| A Receipt to restore Stella's Youth | 309 |
| Stella s Birth-day, 1724-5 | 311 |
| Epigram on Wood's Brass Money | 313 |
| A Simile on our Want of Silver | ib. |
| Wood an Insect | 314 |
| On Wood the Ironmonger | 316 |
| Will Wood's Petition | 317 |
| A new Song on Wood's Halfpence | 319 |
| A serious Poem upon Will Wood | 322 |
| To Dr. Sheridan | 325 |
| Dr. Sheridan's Answer | 327 |
| Dr. Swift's Reply | 328 |
| To Quilca | 329 |
| Upon stealing a Crown, when the Dean was asleep | 330 |
| The Dean's Answer | 331 |
| Ode on Science | 332 |
| Stella's Birth-day, 1726-7 | 333 |
| Horace, Book i. Ode 14. paraphrased | 336 |
| Verses on St Patrick's Well | 338 |
| On reading Dr. Young's Satires | 342 |
| The Dog and Thief | 344 |
| Advice to the Grub Street Verse Writers | 345 |
| Epistle to a Lady | 346 |
| Palinodia. Horace, Book i. Ode 16 | 355 |
| Bec's Birthday | 357 |
| On the Collar of Tiger | 359 |
| Epigrams on Windows | 359—362 |
| To Janus, on New-Year's Day | 363 |
| A Pastoral Dialogue between Richmond Lodge and Marble Hill | 364 |
| Desire and Possession | 368 |
| On Censure | 370 |
| The Furniture of a Woman's Mind | 371 |
| Clever Tom Clinch | 373 |
| Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope, while writing the Dunciad | 374 |
| A Love Poem from a Physician | 375 ​ |
| Dean Swift at Sir Arthur Acheson's | 377 |
| On a very old Glass at Market Hill | 378 |
| Dr. Swift's Answer | ib. |
| On cutting down the old Thorn at Market-hill | 379 |
| My Lady's Lamentation and Complaint | 382 |
| A Pastoral Dialogue between Dermot and Sheelah | 386 |
| On the Five Ladies at Sot's-hole | 389 |
| The Five Ladies Answer | 391 |
| The Beau's Reply | 392 |
| The Journal of a modern Lady | 393 |
| A Dialogue between mad Mullinix and Timothy | 402 |
| Tim and the Fables | 410 |
| Tom Mullinix and Dick | 411 |
| Dick, a Maggot | 413 |
| Clad all in Brown | ib. |
| Dick's Variety | 415 |
| Dr. Swift to himself, on St Cecilia's Day | 416 |
| On Paddy's Character of the Intelligencer | 417 |
| Parody on a Character of Dean Smedley | 418 |
| Paulus; an Epigram. By Mr. Lindsay | 420 |
| The Answer | 421 |
| A Dialogue between an eminent Lawyer and Dr. Swift | 425 |
| On burning a dull Poem | 427 |
| An Epistle to Lord Carteret, by Dr. Delany | 428 |
| An Epistle upon an Epistle, from a certain Doctor to a certain Great Lord | 432 |
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse