The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D. D.G. Bell and sons, Limited, 1914 |
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¹ Supra acquaintance Alderman ALEXANDER POPE appears April believe Bishop Caledon copy Cork correspondence daughter deafness Dean of St Dean's Deane Swift Deanery House dear friend dear Sir death desire Doctor Dublin University Duke Dunkin EARL OF ORRERY Elwin England esteem Faulkner favour Forster Collection friendship gentleman GEORGE FAULKNER give hand hath hear heartily honour hope Ireland Irish January John Jonathan Swift KATHARINE RICHARDSON King kingdom letter live London Lord Bathurst Lord Bolingbroke Lord Orrery Lord Oxford Lordship Macaulay Madam married memory mentioned months never obedient humble servant obliged opinion ORRERY TO SWIFT Orrery's Parliament Patrick's Patrick's Cathedral person Philip Tisdall pleasure poem Pope Pope's pounds Pray present printed received recommend respect sent Sheridan Supra SWIFT DEAR tell thanks Thomas told trouble Twickenham WHITEWAY wife William Dunkin WILLIAM RICHARDSON wish writ write
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Page 165 - I am so stupid and confounded, that I cannot express the mortification I am under both in body and mind. All I caB say is, that I am not in torture; but I daily and hourly expect it. Pray let me know how your health is, and your family. I hardly understand one word I write. I am sure my days will be very few; few and miserable they must be.
Page 21 - My lord-treasurer found his credit daily declining. In May before the queen died, I had my last meeting with them at my Lord Masham's. He left us together ; and therefore I spoke very freely to them both, and told them, ' I would retire, for I found all was gone.
Page 132 - Having nothing to tell you of my poetry, I come to what is now my chief care, my health and amusement. The first is better, as to headaches ; worse, as to weakness and nerves. The changes of weather affect me much; otherwise I want not spirits, except when indigestions prevail. The mornings are my life; in the evenings I am not dead indeed, but sleep and am stupid enough. I love reading still...
Page 33 - As for the other parts of your volume of Letters, my opinion is, that there might be collected from them the best system that ever was wrote for the conduct of human life, at least to shame all reasonable men out of their follies and vices.
Page 115 - He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad; And show'd by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much. That kingdom he hath left his debtor, I wish it soon may have a better.
Page 21 - I loved my lord your father better than any other man in the world, although I had no obligation to him on the score of preferment ; having been driven to this wretched kingdom, to which I was almost a stranger, by his want of power to keep me in what I ought to call my own country, although I happened to be dropped here, and was a year old before I left it ; and to my sorrow, did not die before I came back to it again.
Page 114 - I consulted on this occasion, were of opinion, that the latter part of the poem might be thought by the public a little vain, if so much were said by himself of himself.
Page 13 - In England, before I was twenty, I got a cold which gave me a deafness that I could never clear myself of. Although it came but seldom, and lasted but a few days, yet my left ear has never been well since...
Page 133 - Why cannot I cross the sea? The unhappiest malady I have to complain of, the unhappiest accident of my whole life, is that weakness of the breast, which makes the physicians of opinion that a strong vomit would kill me. I have never taken one, nor had a natural motion that way in fifteen years.
Page 57 - SOME friend of mine lent me a comedy,* which I am told was written by you : I read it carefully, with much pleasure, on account both of the characters and the moral. I have no interest with the people of the playhouse, else I should gladly recommend it to them.