From Steele and Addison to Pope and Swift. Swift's Irish popularity. Its success was great and immediate. Arbuthnot said that he thought it would have as long a run as John Bunyan, and Gay states that the duchess of Marlborough was in raptures with it on account of the satire on human nature with which it was filled. During Swift's visit to England he had, however, received the troubling news of Stella's illness.
Violent friendship is much more lasting and as much engaging as violent love.
Swift was himself so troubled with noises in the ear and deafness that he had no spirit for anything and avoided everybody. He had, as already noticed, been subject to giddiness for many years. 18 Note 4 . Swift may have contributed to Bolingbroke's Craftsman in 1726 and following years. Sichel, W., Bolingbroke and his Times, vol.