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Letters, Written by the Late Jonathan Swift, D. D. (2); Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, and Several of His Friends: From the Year 1703 to 1740
Letters Written by the Late Jonathan Swift D D Dean of St Patrick's Dublin and Several of His Friends From the Year 1703 to 1740 - 2 Author:Jonathan Swift Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1766 Original Publisher: Printed for T. Davies [and 4 others] Subjects: Literary Collections / Letters Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there ma... more »y 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: LETTER CXXIX. Dr. A R B U T H N O T to Dr. SWIFT. DEAR BROTHER, Kenfingtonjuly 10, 17 HAVE talked of your affairs to nobody but my lady Mafoam. She tells me, that fhe has it very much at heart, and would gladly do it for her own fake, and that of her friends ; but thinks it not a fit feafon to fpeak about it. We are indeed in fuch a ftrange condition as to politics, that nobody can tell now who is for who. It were really worth your while to be here for four and twenty hours only, to confider the oddnefs- of the fcene. I am fure it would make you J felHh your country life the better. The dragon holds faft with a dead gripe the little machine . If he would have taken but half fo much pains to have done other things, as he has of late to exert him- felf againft the efquire, he might have been a dragon, inftead of a dagon. I would no more have fuffered and done what he has, than I would have fold myfelf to the gal- His treafurer's ftaff. Vol. II. F lies. lies. Hcec inter nos. However, they have now got rid of the parliament, and may have time to think of a fcheme: perhaps they may have one already. I know nothing, but it is fit to rally the broken forces under fome head or another. They really did very well the laft day but one in the houfe of lords; but yefterday they were in a flame about the queen's anfwer, till the queen eame in, and put an end to it. The dragon fhewed me your letter, and feemed mightily pleafed with it. ...« less