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The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift (3); With a Life
The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift With a Life - 3 Author:Jonathan Swift Volume: 3 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1859 Original Publisher: Little, Brown Subjects: History / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR re... more »print 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: POEMS, CHIEFLY RELATING TO IRISH POLITICS. PARODY ON THE SPEECH OF DR. BENJAMIN PRATT, PROVOST OF TRINITY COLLEGE,1 TO THE PRINCE OF WALES. Illustrious prince, we're come before ye, Who, more than in our founders, glory To be by you protected; 1 Dr. Pratt's speech, which is here parodied, was made when the Duke of Ormond, Swift's valued friend, was attainted, and superseded in the office of chancellor of Trinity College, which he had held from 1688-9, by the Prince of Wales, afterward George II. There is great reason to suppose that the satire is the work of Swift, whose attachment to Ormond was uniformly ardent. Of this it may be worth while to mention a trifling instance. The duke had presented to the cathedral of St. Patrick's a superb organ, surmounted by his own armorial bearings. It was placed facing the nave of the church. But after Ormond's attainder, Swift, as Dean of St. Patrick's, received orders from government to remove the scutcheon from the church. He obeyed, but he placed the shield in the great aisle, where he himself and Stella lie buried, and where the arms still remain. The verses have suffered much by the inaccuracy of the noble transcriber, Lord New- toun Butler. The original speech will be found in the London Gazette of Tuesday, April 17, 1716, and Scott's edition of Swift, Deign to descend and give us laws, For we are converts to your caus...« less