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Letters Written by the Late Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's Dublin, and Several of His Friends
Letters Written by the Late Jonathan Swift Dean of St Patrick's Dublin and Several of His Friends Author:John Hawkesworth Subtitle: From the Year 1703 to 1740. Published From the Originals; With Notes Explanatory and Historical General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1766 Original Publisher: Printed for R. Davis Subjects: Literary Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, W... more »elsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Mr. Gay is very peevifh that I fpell and ill ; but I don't care : for neither the pen nor I can do better. Befides, I think you have flattered me, and fuch people pught to be put to trouble, Mr. GAY's Poftfcript. Now I hope you are pleafed, and that you will allow for fo fmall a fum as 200 /. you have a lumping pennyworth. LETTER CCLXXXIV. Lady E- -- G -- to Dr. S W I F T. December 24, 1730. jINCE you, with a modeft afTurance, affirm you underftand and practife good manners better than any other perfon in either kingdom, I wifh you would therefore put into very handfome terms my excufe to dean Swiff, that I have not anfwered his letter, that I received before the laft. For even prebendary Head aflured my brother Harry, that he, in all form andjuftice, took place of a colonel, as being major-general in the church ; and therefore you need not ha, Ye called a council to know, whether you or I were to write laft; becaufe, as being but a poor courtefy lady, I can pretend to no other place but what other people's good- nefs gives me. This being fettled, I ought not to have writ again; but however, I fear I mould have been wrong enough to have defired the correfpondence to be kept up, but that I have been ill for a fortnight, and of courfe lazy, and not in a writing mood. Firft, as to Mrs. J$arber, as. I told you before, fo I tell y...« less