OF

ALEXANDER POPE.

NEW EDITION.

INCLUDING

SEVERAL HUNDRED UNPUBLISHED LETTERS, AND OTHER
NEW MATERIALS,

COLLECTED IN PART BY THE LATE

RT. HON. JOHN WILSON CROKER.

WITH INTRODUCTIONS AND NOTES

BY REV. WHITWELL ELWIN.

VOL. VII.

CORRESPONDENCE.-VOL. II.

WITH PORTRAITS AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1871.

[The right of Translation is reserved.]

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CORNELL
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

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CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME OF CORRESPONDENCE.

An asterisk is prefixed to the letters which, either in whole or in part, are not
in the edition of Roscoe.

LETTER.

6. Swift's defence of his political conduct. His

abstinence from party politics since the death

of the queen. Prosecution of the printer of

the Proposal for the use of Irish Manufactures.

Complaint of the unfairness exhibited by

the chief justice at the trial. Publications

wrongly imputed to Swift. His recommenda-

tion of whigs to the patronage of Lord Oxford.

An Irish different from an English whig.

Swift's political creed

7. Gay to Swift. Attachment to Swift. Disap-

pointed of favours from the great .

*8. Swift-to Gay. His dislike to Ireland; his

humdrum life there. The causes why poets

are unsuccessful at court. Advises Gay to

get an appointment in Ireland .

*9. Pope and Bolingbroke to Swift. Pope's attach-

ment to Swift. They have the same friends.

Pope's account of his own opinions, disposi-

tion, and mode of life. Bolingbroke's similar

account of himself in contrast to the views of

Pope

*10. Swift to Pope. Lord Peterborough.

Swift

*11. Introduces Mr. Stopford to Pope. Swift's

intention of visiting England. Lord Oxford

lamented Pope's necessity to translate, and

had intended to provide for him

12. Pope to Swift. Mr. Stopford. Hope of seeing
Swift. Gulliver's Travels. Pope's intended
poem. Mrs. Howard. Dr. Arbuthnot's illness Sept. 14, 1725

*13. Swift to Pope. Mr. Stopford's bashfulness.
Swift's employments. His Gulliver's Travels.
His misanthropy. His definition of man.
Pope's Odyssey, and gardening. The court
lady. Character of Dr. Arbuthnot. Gay.
Contemptuous mention of Philips. Boling-
broke's fall in hunting

14. Pope to Swift. Anticipation of Swift's visit.

His old friends Bolingbroke, the second Lord

Oxford, and Arbuthnot. Sarcastic notice of

Philips. Gay's trust in the patronage of Mrs.

Howard. Improved mind of Lord Boling-

broke. Swift's indignation against mankind.

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