THE

WORKS

OF THE

REV. JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D.

DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S, DUBLIN.

ARRANGED BY THOMAS SHERIDAN, A.M.

WITH

Notes, Historical and Critical.

A NEW EDITION, IN NINETEEN VOLUMES;

CORRECTED 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. RONSON; WILKIE AND
ROBINSON ; K. LEA ; J. NUNN ; CUTHELL AND MAKTIN ; J. WALKER ; T. EGERTON;
CLARKE AND SON; VERNOR, HOOD, AND SHARPE ; SCATCHERD AND LETTERMAN;
LACKINSTON, 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.

CONTENTS

OF THE

SIXTEENTH VOLUME.

Page

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...

On the Union.....

63

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

Apollo Outwitted ..

65

Vanbrugh's House

67

The History of Vanbrugh's House

71

Baucis and Philemon

74

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..

85

On the Little House by the Churchyard of Castlenock.

The

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