THE

WORKS

OF

JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D.

DEAN OF ST PATRICK'S, DUBLIN;

CONTAINING

ADDITIONAL LETTERS, TRACTS, AND POEMS,

NOT HITHERTO PUBLISHED;

WITH

NOTES,

AND

A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

BY

WALTER SCOTT, ESQ.

VOLUME XIV.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH;

WHITE, COCHRANE, AND CO. AND GALÈ, CURTIS, AND FENNER,
LONDON; AND JOHN CUMMING, DUBLIN.

1814.

Verses to Mr. Congreve,

the Honourable Sir William Temple,

King William on his Successes in Ireland,

the Athenian Society,

Sir William Temple's late Illness and Recovery,

Verses written in a Lady's Ivory Table-book,

Mrs Frances Harris's Petition,

A Ballad on the Game of Traffic,

A Ballad, to the tune of the Cut-purse,

The Discovery,

The Description of a Salamander,

To Mrs Biddy Floyd,

13

21

23

36

45

50

52

58

59

61

63

65

67

69

70

The Reverse (to Swift's Verses on Biddy Floyd),

Page

A Conference,-Sir H. P-ce's Chariot and Mrs D.

Phyllis, or the Progress of Love,

111

Verses to Mr Delany,

Epitaph on the same,

Horace, Book iv. Ode 9. addressed to Archbishop King,

An Elegy on the Death of Demar the Usurer,

Verses to Mrs Houghton of Bourmont,

written on a window at the Deanery House, St

114

115

120

122

ib.

123

ib.

124

Apollo's Edict,

Description of an Irish Feast,

The Progress of Beauty,

The South Sea Project,

131

134

141

Poetry,

145

147

The Dog and Shadow,

156

A Prologue,

Epilogue to Mr Hoppy's Benefit-night at Smock-Alley,

Epigram,

Prologue to a Play for the Benefit of distressed Weavers,

Epilogue to a Play for the Benefit of distressed Weavers,

by the Dean,

Answer to Dr Sheridan's Prologue, and to Dr Swift's

Epilogue, in behalf of the distressed Weavers, by

Dr Delany,

Verses on Gaulstown House,

The Country Life,

A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a late famous General,

Dr Delany's Villa,

ib.

158

161

ib.

163

Verses on one of the windows at Delville,

Carberiæ Rupes,

Carbery Rocks, translated by Dr Dunkin,

Copy of the Birth-day Verses on Mr Ford,

On Dreams, an imitation of Petronius,

Verses sent by Dr Delany to Dr Swift,

The Answer,

A Quiet Life and a Good Name,

A Pastoral Dialogue,

165

167

168

174

175

177

ib.

179

180

184

186

187

189

191

Advice to the Grub-Street Verse-Writers,

203

Dr Swift to Mr Pope,

204

A Love Poem from a Physician to his Mistress,

205

Bouts Rimez on Signoro Domitilla,

207

Helter Skelter,

208

A Dialogue between an eminent Lawyer and Dr Swift,

230

On burning a dull Poem,

233

Verses to a Lady,

275

Epigram on the Busts in Richmond Hermitage,

Another,

284

285

sent to the Dean, with an Eagle Quill, by Mrs

Pilkington,

An Invitation by Dr Delany, in the name of Dr Swift,

The Beast's Confession to the Priest,