The Critical Review, Vol. 22: Or, Annals of Literature (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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No author ever received a more honourable testimony of his integrity as a man, than Dr. Swift has, by the publication before us. It appears at a time when no profit can accrue from flattery, no end can be served by tenderness for his memory, and when (we are sorry to say it) the public was not a little prepossessed against his character, by the ill-judged compilations of those who affected a friendship for his person, and an esteem for his abilities. We have often observed, that the desire of seeming impartial is apt to betray a writer into the contrary extreme, as the conversation of fame people becomes coarse and indelicate, from their fondness to be thought sincere and simple.

That Dr. Swift was a tory can scarcely admit of a. doubt, but it is with us a matter of uncertainty, whether he was a party-man. Such a tory as he was implies no more than the name of a colour to distinguish a rider at a horse-race. We cannot forbear repeating that he was the friend of merit, even cat of his own private pocket, under whatever denomination he found it.

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