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Miscellanies in prose and verse.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Printed for J. Morphew, near Stationer's-Hall, MDCCXIII. [1713]
Edition:The second edition.
Subjects:
English essays.
Table of Contents:
  • Contests and dissensions in Athens and Rome.
  • The sentiments of a Church of England man.
  • An argument against abolishing Christianity.
  • A project for the advancement of religion.
  • A meditation upon a broom-stick.
  • Various thoughts, moral and diverting.
  • A critical essay upon the faculties of the mind.
  • Predictions for the year 1708.
  • The accomplishment of the first of Mr. Bickerstaff's predictions.
  • A vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff, esq.
  • A famous prediction of Merlin the British wizard.
  • A letter concerning the sacramental test.
  • Verses wrote in a lady's ivory table book.
  • To Their Excellencies the lords justices of Ireland (Mrs. Harris's petition)
  • Ballad to the Lady B.B.
  • V
  • 's house, built from the ruins of Whitehall.
  • The description of a salamander.
  • Baucis and Philemon.
  • To Mrs. Biddy Floyd.
  • The history of V
  • 's house.
  • A Grubstreet elegy.
  • Apollo outwitted.
  • A description of the morning.
  • A description of a city shower.
  • The virtues of Sid Hamet the magician's rod.