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Etters to and from Dr Swift.

Letter

A criticism on these letters

1. Mr Pope's answer to Dr Swift, offering him a fum of money

to induce him to change his religion

11. To Dr Swift. Retired from court fome months before the

Queen's death

III. From Dr Swift at Dublin. How little he cares to think of
England. Concern at the violence of party. Of the firft
volume of Mr Pope's tranflation of Homer. His circumftances
in Ireland

IV. Mr Pope's love and memory of Dr Swift. The calumnies
and flanders upon him on account of religion, turned into rail-
lery
V. Dr Swift's anfwer. His inquiry concerning Mr P.'s princi-
ples. Poets generally follow the court. Raillery on the fub-
ject of his enemies, and his religion. A Quaker pastoral, and
a Newgate paftoral, propofed as fubjects for Mr Gay

VI. Dr Swift to Mr Pope. An apology for his conduct and wri-

tings after the Queen's death. With an account of his prin-

ciples in politics

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XIII. To Dr Swift. Character of fome of his friends in Eng-

land; with further invitations

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XIV. Dr Swift's anfwer. Death of I ord Oxford's fon. Some-
thing concerning Phs. More of his milanthropy
XV. Expectations of Dr Swift's journey to England. Charac-
ter of low enemies and detractors; with what temper they are
to be borne. The amufements of his friends in England
Lord B.'s poft fcript on the fame occation
XVI. From Dr Swift, preparing to leave England again

XVII. Anfwer from Mr Pope. The regret of his departure; re-
membrance of the fatisfaction paft; wishes for his welfare--
XVIII. Defires for his return, and fettlement in England. The
various fchemes of his other friends, and his own

XIX. From Mr Gay and Mr Pope. An account of the recep-

tion of Gulliver's Travels in England

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XXIII. The anfwer. On the fame fubjects

XXIV. On Dr Swift's fecond departure for Ireland
XXV. From Dr Swift. Hs realons for departing

XXVI. From Dr Swift. His remembrance of Mr P.'s friend-
fhip; with fome confideration of his circumftances
XXVII. From Mr Gay. Raillery. What employment was
offered him at court, and why he refufed it
XXVIII. Dr Swift to Mr Gay. On the refufal of that employ-
ment, and his quitting the court. Of the Beggar's opera
XXIX. From Lord Bolingbroke and Mr Pope. Of the Dunciad.
Advice to the Dean in the manner of Montaigne.
courtiers, and of the Beggar's Opera
XXX. Of a true Jonathan Gulliver in New England. The
Dunciad, and the treatife of the Bathos. Reflections on mor-
tality and decay. What is defirable in the decline of life

XXXI. From Dr Swift. Answer to the former.

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XLII. Dr Swift's aniwer. The misfortunes attending great
talents. Concerning fame, and the defire of it
XLII. Dr Swift to Mr Pope. Concerning the Dunciad, and
of his fituation of life

XLIV. From Lord B. That the fenfe of friendship increases
with increase of years. Concerning a history of his own
times, and Mr P.'s moral poem

XLV. Of the ftyle of his letters, of his condition of life, his

part friendships, diflike of party-fpirit, and thoughts of pen-

tions and preferment

XLVI. Of Mr Wefley's differtations on Job Poft fcript by
Lord Bol. on the pleasure we take in reading letters

XLVII. From Lord B. to Dr Swift. Inviting him to Eng-

land, and concerning reformation of manners by writing

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LXXV. From Dr Swift. On the death of friends

LXXVI. From the fame. On the offence taken at their wri-
tings. Of Mr Pope's letters. Character of Dr Rundle, Bi-

fhop of Derry

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