Observations Upon Lord Orrery's Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift: Containing Several Singular Anecdotes Relating to the Character and Conduct of that Great Genius, and the Most Deservedly Celebrated Stella. In a Series of Letters to His Lordship. To which are Added, Two Original Pieces of the Same Author ... Never Before Publish'd

W. Reeve, 1754 - Authors, Irish - 310 pages

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CONTENTS	1

Badgeing the poor	8

LETTER II	15

His fine compliment to Lord CARTE RET in very	25

Envious men the worft kind of robbers	33

jffine anfiver of Lord OXFORD to SWIFTS	35

His prayers to his family his Will his prayers	43

SWIFT takes his Mafters degree in Oxford	49

This illuftrated at large in the character of	155

LETTER XIII	161

The itrifdom of his maker remarkably feen in that	164

The folly of attempting to amend the world by fatire	171

F T remarkably temperate	180

The charaBer of bis maid fweetheart and	187

His goodnature to one of bis choir tobo met	188

Pojlfcript to this Letter An account of the Deans	194

Offered to own it after fame years but Jhe would	56

The great danger of departing from the eftablijhed	62

The happy effefls of a different conduft from that	63

Some fine lines upon jealoufy written about that	69

A converfation which a friend of the authors	77

SWIFTS own judgment of exprejjions of that kind	83

Lord ORRERY much miinformed in relation to	90

Lord	91

fits own character of the friends with whom	98

SWIFTS letter to a young gentleman juft entered	104

LETTER X	111

LETTER XL	125

The names of fix of them fet down as recorded at	133

SWIFTJ won opinion of himfelf in that period	139

Seme obfervations upon ARISTOTLE V dating	140

His brain when his head was opened found greatly	149

His conduct on occajion of his being applied to	200

SWIFTS great andufeful attention totheflyh	206

His behaviour on hearing that any one was killed	215

An apology for his riddles	222

A defence of ARISTOTLE from the contemptuous	230

bis chrijlianity called upon him to make due dif	237

LETTER XVIII	246

Friendhip compared to the bias of bowls where	253

His firft falfe Jlep in the world? bow recovered	259

A further defence of him againI the charge of lava	261

Some observations upon hisprojsclfor the advance	269

LETTER XX	276

One of SWIFTS Jineft obfervations in his projett	281

A Jhort review and fummary of his cbarafler	288

Second a Jhort poem to a friend who had been much	309

Title	Observations Upon Lord Orrery's Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift: Containing Several Singular Anecdotes Relating to the Character and Conduct of that Great Genius, and the Most Deservedly Celebrated Stella. In a Series of Letters to His Lordship. To which are Added, Two ...
Author	Patrick Delany
Publisher	W. Reeve, 1754
Original from	the University of Michigan
Digitized	13 Feb 2009
Length	310 pages

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