Contents of the Ninth Volume.

LETTER

I.

ITO Dr. Swift. Retired from Court

Some months before the Queen's

Death.

II. From Dr. Swift, at Dublin. How little

he cares to think of England: Concern at

the violence of party. Of the first volume

of Mr. Pope's tranflation of Homer. His

circumftances in Ireland.

III. Mr. Pope's love and memory of Dr. Swift.
The Calumnies and Slanders upon him on
account of Religion, turned into raillery.
IV. Dr. Swift's anfwer. His enquiry concern-
ing Mr. P.'s principles. Poets generally
follow the Court. Raillery on the subject
of his enemies, and his Religion, A Qua-
ker-paftoral, and a Newgate-paftoral,
propofed as fubjects for Mr. Gay.

V. Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope: An apology for

his conduct and writings after the Queen's

death: With an account of his principles

in politics.

VI. Dr. Swift to Mr. Gay.

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VII. Mr.

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VII. Mr. Pope to Dr. Swift, occafioned by

the former: An account of his conduct

and maxims in general.

VIII. From the L. Bolingbroke, a poftfcript to

the foregoing letter, with fome account of

his own fentiments and fituation in pri-

vate life.

IX. Dr. Swift's answer.

X. From Mr. Pope to Dr. Swift. An in-

vitation to England.

XI. From Dr. Swift: Of Gulliver's Travels,

and his fcheme of Mifanthropy: Concern-

ing a lady at Court: Character of Dr.

Arbuthnot.

XII. To Dr. Swift. Character of fome of his

friends in England; with further invi-

tations.

XIII. Dr. Swift's anfwer. Death of Lord Ox-

ford's fon: fomething concerning Ph—s :

Mare of his Mijanthropy.

XIV. Expectations of Dr. Swift's journey to

England Character of low enemies and

detractors with what temper they are to

be born. The amtments of his friends

in England.-Lord B.s poffcript on the

fame occafion.

XV. From Dr. Swift, preparing to leave Eng-

land again.

XVI. An-

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XVI. Anfwer from Mr. Pope. The regret of

his departure, remembrance of the Ja-

tisfaction paft, wishes for his welfare.—

XVII. Defires for his return, and fettlement in
England: The various fchemes of his
other friends, and his own.

XVIII. From Mr. Gay and Mr. Pope. An ac-

count of the reception of Gulliver's

Travels in England.

XIX. On the fame fubject from Mr. Pope.
Advice against party-writing.

XX. From Dr. Swift. About Gulliver, and
of a fecond journey to England.
XXI. From the fame. Concerning party, and
dependency: And of the project of a
joint volume of Mifcellanies.

XXII. The answer. On the fame fubjects.

XXIII. On Dr. Swift's fecond departure for Ire-

land.

XXIV. From Dr. Swift: His reafons for de-
parting.

| XXV. From Dr. Swift. His remembrance of
Mr. P.'s friend/hip; with fome confi-
deration of his circumftances.

XXVI. From Mr. Gay. Raillery: What em-

ployment was offered him at court, and

why he refufed it.

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XXVII. Dr. Swift to Mr. Gay. On the refu-

fal of that employment, and his quit-

ting the Court. Of the Beggars

Opera.

XXVIII. From Lord Bolingbroke and Mr. Pope.

Of the Dunciad. Advice to the

Dean in the manner of Montaigne.-

Of courtiers, and of the Beggars

Opera.

XXIX. Of a true Jonathan Gulliver in New-

England: The Dunciad, and the

Treatife of the Bathos. Reflections

on mortality and decay: What is de-
firable in the decline of life.

XXX. From Dr. Swift. Answer to the for-
mer: His fituation in Ireland.

XXXI. From the fame. His own, and Mr.
Pope's temper.

XXXII. Lord Bolingbroke's life in the country.

More about the Dunciad.

XXXIII. From Dr. Swift. Advice how to pub-

lifh the Dunciad: Concerning Lord

B. and Mr. Gay.

XXXIV. From Bath. The pleasure of being

abufed in company with worthy men.

XXXV. From Dr. Swift. His manner of liv-

ing with a friend in the country.

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