The Works of the REV. Jonathan Swift (Volume 8) - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1803. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... TATLERS, AND OTHER MISCELLANEOUS PERIODICAL PAPERS. WRITTEN BY DR. SWIFT. See also two poetical extracts from the Tatler, by Dr. Swift, In the tenth volume of this collection; a " Description of the Morning," from No ix. and a "Description of a City Shower," from N ccxxxviii. N. VOL. VIII. After copying all the Tat Li s which can properly kt ascribed to the Uean; it is but justice to mention four, which (having been said to he his) he has thus disclaimed: " The Tatler 257 upon Milton's Speech is not mine." Journal to Stella, Nov. I, 1710.--" The Tatler of the Shilling 249 was not mine, more than the hint, and two or three general heads for it. I have much more important business on my hands." Nov. S--"You are mistaken in your guesses about Tatlers: I did neither write that on Noses 260, nor Religion 257; nor do 1 send him of late any hints at all." Jan. i, 1710-11. N. I THE TATLER, N» XXXII. THUHSOAY, JUNE 20, 170gi. "To Isaac Bickehstaff, Esquire. "Sin, June 18, 1709 "1 Know not whether you ought to pity or laugh at me; for I am fallen desperately in love with a professed Platonne, the most unaccountable creature of her sex. To hear her talk seraphics, and run over Norris , and More f, and Milton +, and the whole set of Intellectual Triflers, torments me heartily; for, to a lover who understands metaphors, all this pretty prattle of ideas gives very fine views of pleasure, which only the dear declaimer prevents, by understanding them literally: why should she wish to be a cherubim, when it is flesh and blood that makes her adorable? If I speak to her, that is a high breach of the idea of intuition. If I offer at her hand or lip, she shrinks from the touch like a sensitive plant, and would contract herself into mere spirit. She calls her chariot, veh...