THE

234
WORKS

OF THE

REV. JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D.

DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S, DUBLIN.

ARRANGED BY THOMAS SHERIDAN, A.M.

WITH

Notcs, Historical and Critical.

A NEW EDITION, IN NINETEEN VOLUMES;

CORKECTED AND REVISED BY

JOHN NICHOLS, F.S. A. EDINBURGH AND PERTH.

VOL. XVI.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON; J. NICHOLS AND SON ; R. BALDWIN; OTRIDGE AND SON;

F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON; T. PAYNE ; R. FAULDER ; G. ROBINSON ; WILKIE AND
ROBINSON ; K. LEA ; J. NUNN ; CUTHELL AND MARTIN ; J. WALKER ; T. EGERTON;
CLARKE AND SON; VERNOR, HOOD, AND SHARPE ; SCATCHERD AND LETTERMAN;
LACKINGTON, ALLEN, AND CU.; J. CARPENTER; LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME;
CADELL AND DAVIES; W. MILLER; J. AND A. ARCH; S. DAGSTER; J. MURRAY ;
J. HARDING; R. H. EVANS; AND J. MAWMAN.

1808.

CONTENTS

OF THE

SIXTEENTH VOLUME.

Puge

ODE to Dr. William Sancroft, late Lord Archbishop of Can-

terbury

3

Ode to Sir William Temple....

13

Ode to King William, on his Success in Ireland..

21

Ode to the Athenian Society..

23

To Mr. Congreve.

34

Occasioned by Sir William Temple's late Illness and Re-

covery...

41

Written in a Lady's Ivory Table Book

46

Mrs. Francis Harris's Petition ..

48

A Ballad on the Game of Traffic ...

53

A Ballad - To the tune of the Cut-purse.

54

The Discovery

55

The Problem ..

57

The Description of a Salamander ..

59

To the Earl of Peterborow...

61

On the Union.....

63

On Mrs. Biddy Floyd, or the Receipt to form a Beauty ..... 64

Apollo Outwitted

Vanbrugh's House .....

67

The History of Vanbrugh's House

71

Baucis and Philemon

7+

Elegy on Partridge the Almanack maker....

79

His Epitaph ..

82

Merlin's Prophecy

83

A Description of the Morning

84

A Description of a City Shower..

65

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