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and against party-Spirit in writing.

LVII. From Dr. Swift to Mr. Gay. Congratulation on Mr. Gay's leaving the Court; Lord Cornbury's refufal of a pension: Character of Mr. Gay. LVIII. From the fame. Concerning the writing of fables Advice about oeconomy, and provifion for old age; of inattention, etc. Pofcript to the Duchefs.

LIX. From the fame to Vr. Gay, and a poffeript to the Duchefs, on various fubjects.

LX. From the fame, concerning the opening of letters at the post-office. The encouragement given to bad writers. Reafons for his not living in England. Poffcript to the Duchefs; her character; raillery on the fubject of Mr. Gay himself. LXI. From Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope. An account of Several little pieces or tracts published as his: which were or were not genuine.

LXII. From Mr. Pope and Dr. Arbuthnot to Dr. Swift: On the fudden death of Mr. Gay.

LXIII. From Dr. Swift. On the fame fubject. Of Mr. Pope's epifiles, and particularly that on the Ufe of Riches.

LXIV. From Mr. Pope, on Mr. Gay: His care of his memory and writings; concerning the Dean's and his own; and of feveral other things.

LXV. More of Mr. Gay, his papers, and epitaph. Of the fate of his own writings, and the purpofe of them. Invitation of the Dean to England.

LXVI. From Dr. Swift. Of the paper called The Life and character of Dr. Swift. Of Mr. Gay, and the care of his papers. Of a libel against Mr. Pope. Of the edition of the Dean's works in Ireland, how printed.

LXVII. Of the Dean's Verfes, called a Libel on Dr. D. the Spurious character of him: Lord Bol's writings: The indolence of great men in years. LXVIII. From Dr. Swift. On Mrs. Pope's death: Invitation to Dublin. His own fituation there, and temper.

LXIX. Anfwer to the former. His temper of mind

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-Since his mother's death. The union of fentiments in all his acquaintance.

LXX. Concern for his abfence. Of a libel against him. Reflections on the behaviour of a worthlefs man.

LXXI. Melancholy circumstances of the feparation of friends. Impertinence of falfe pretenders to their friendship. Publishers of flight papers. Of the Elay on Man, and of the collection of the Dean's works. Poftfcript by Lord Bolingbroke, concerning his metaphyfical work. LXXII. From Dr. Swift. The answer. Of his own amufements, the Effay on Man, and Lord B.'s writings.

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LXXIII. Of the pleasures of his converfation: Of Dr. Arbuthnot's decay of health: Of the nature of moral and philofophical writings.

LXXIV. From Dr. Swift. On the death of friends. LXXV. From the fame. On the offence taken at their writings. Of Mr. Pope's Letters.

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racter of Dr. Rundle, Bishop of Derry. LXXVI. Concerning the Earl of Peterborow, and his death at Lisbon. Charities of Dr. Swift. LXXVII. From Dr. Swift. Of writing letters: Several of the ancients writ them to publish. Of his own letters. The care he fhall take of Mr. Pope's, to prevent their being printed. LXXVIII. From Dr. Swift. On the death of friends. What fort of popularity he has in Ireland. Again the general corruption.

LXXIX. From the fame. His kindness for Mr. P. and his own infirm condition.

LXXX. Mr. Pope to Dr. Swift. His plan for the Second book of Ethic Epistles, of the extent and limits of human reafon and feience; and what retarded the execution of it.—Of Lord B.'s writings. New invitations to England.

LXXXI. From Dr. Swift. His refolution to preferve Mr. Pope's Letters, and leave them to his difpofal after his death. His defire to be mentioned in the Ethic Epiples. Of the lofs of friends, and decays of age.

LXXXII, What fort of letters he now writes, and the contraction of his correfpondence. Of the hu

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man failings of great geniuses, and the atlowance to be made them. His high opinion of Lord Bolingbroke and Dr. Swift as wri

ters.

LXXXIII. From Dr. Swift. Of old age, and death of friends. More of the Ethic Epiftles.

LXXXIV. Of the complaints of friends.

One of the beft comforts of old age. Some of his Letters copied in Ireland, and printed.

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Lord Bolingbroke's retirement. Of fome new friends, and of what fort they are.

LXXXV. The prefent circumstances of his life and his companions. Wijhes that the last part of their days might be paft together.

LXXXVI. From Dr. Swift. Reafons that obftruct his coming to England. Defires to be res membered in Mr. Pope's Epiftles. Many of Mr. Pope's letters to him loft, and by what

means.

LXXXVII. From Dr. Swift. Mention again of the chafm in the letters. Objections in Ire land to fome paffages in Mr. Pope's letters published in England. The Dean's own opinion of them.

LXXXVIII. From Dr. Swift. Of his declining flate of health. His opinion of Mr. P.'s Dialogue, intitled, One Thoufand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight. The intire collection of his and Mr. Pope's letters, for twenty years and upwards, found, and in the hands of a lady, a worthy and judicious relation of the Dean's.--- This a mistake; not in hers; but in fome other fafe hands.

LETTERS to RALPH ALLEN, Efq.

I. Of the use of picture and fculpture, both for civil and religious purposes

P. 320

II. Of a new edition of his letters, and the use of them 321
III. Of the cultivation of his own gardens
IV. Reflections on a falfe report concerning his own

death

V. On the Queen's death

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VI. Concerning an object of their common charity 327 VII. His folicitude for his friends

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VIII. An account of his ill ftate of health in his laft ill

nefs.

LETTERS to Mr. WARBURTON.

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1. His acceptance of the Commentary on the ESSAY

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II. On the fame

III. On the fame

IV. On the fame

V. On the fame

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VI. His expectation of feeing him in town VII. His opinion of the Divine Legation; and his defire

to have the ESSAY ON MAN thought as favourable to the interefts of religion as of virtue 337 VIII. His project of procuring a profe tranflation of his Efay into Latin, and his approbation of a Specimen fent to him of it

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IX. His chagrine on fomebody's having printed a new volume of his Letters in Ireland

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X. His fatisfaction on the prospect of meeting his friend in town

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XI. Acquainting him with his obligations to a noble

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XII. An account of his Project for adding a fourth

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XIII. Invites his friend to Bath

XIV. On the fame Subject

XV. Relating to the projected edition of his Works 348 XVI. On the fame, and the fourth book of the Dunciad 349 XVII. On the fame

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XVIII. On a noble Lord, who made profeffions of Service

XIX. A character of their common friend

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amufements in his garden, and folitude for the projected edition

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XX. Defires his friend to correct the Effay on Homer 353 XXI. Thanks him for having done it 355 XXII. Account of the publication of the DUNCIAD 356 XXIII. Of his ill-ftate of health-The edition of his Works -The laureat and the clergy

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XXIV. The increase of his disorder, and the forefight of its confequences

XXV. On the fame

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Binfield, Nov. 13, 1712. OU writ me a very kind Letter fome months ago, and told me you were then upon the point of taking a journey into Devonshire. That hindered my anfwering you, and I have fince several times inquired

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you, without any fatisfaction; for fo I call the knowledge of your welfare, or of any thing that concerns you. I past two months in Suffex, and fince my return, have been again very ill. I writ to Lintot in hopes of hearing of you, but had no answer to that point. Our friend Mr. Cromwell too has been filent all this year; I believe he has been displeased at fome or other of my freedoms*, which I very innocently take, and moft with those I think moft my friends. But this I know nothing of; perhaps he may have opened to you: and if I know

We fee by the Letters to Mr. Cromwell, that Mr. Pope was wont to rally him on his turn for trifling and pedantic criticifm. So he loft his two early friends, Cromwell and Wycherley, by his zeal to correct the bad poetry of the one, and the bad taste of the other.

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