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基本説明
Introduction by Alex Petit. Preface by William Rees-Mogg. This edition contains contributions by three of the leading satirists of the early eighteenth century. Three of the volumes were printed in 1727, while the last was published in 1732.
Full Description
"Miscellanies in Prose and Verse" (1727-32) contained contributions by three of the leading satirists of the early 18th century, published at the time when all three were at the height of their powers. This edition contains the contributions of Alexander Pope, Jonathon Swift and John Gay.
Contents
Volume 1 Preface by William Rees Mogg; Introduction; Analysis of attributions; Preface: by Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope; A Discourse of the Contests and Dissentions between the Nobles and the Commons in Athens and Rome, with the Consequences they had upon those States; The Sentiments of a Church-of-England Man, with Respect to Religion and Government; An Argument to prove that the Abolishing of Christianity in England, may, as Things now stand, be attended with some Inconveniences, and perhaps not produce those many good Effects proposed thereby; A Project for the Advancement of Religion and the Reformation of manners. To the Countess of Berkley; A Letter from a Member of the House of Commons in Ireland, to a Member of the House of Commons in England. concerning the Sacramental Test; A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind; Predictions for the Year 1708. Wherein the Month and the Day of the Month, are set down, the Persons named, and the great Actions and Events of next Year particularly related, as they will come to pass; Written to prevent the People of England from being farther imposed on by vulgar Almanack-Makers. By Isaac Bickerstaff Esq; The Accomplishment of the First of M Bickerstaff's Predictions; being an Account of the Death of Mr Partridge the Almanck-Maker upon 29th instant; Squire Bickerstaff detected: Or, the Astrological Impostor convicted, by John Partridge, Student in Physick and Astrology; A Vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq; against what is objected to him by Mr Partridge in his Almanack for the present Year, 1709. By the said Isaac Bickerstaff Esq; A Proposal for correcting, improving, and ascertaining the English Tongue. In a Letter to the most Honourable Robert Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain; A Letter to a young Gentleman lately enter'd into Holy Orders; Thoughts on Various Subjects Volume 2 Pref ace; The History of John Bull, and his Law-Suit; A Key to the Lock; Merlin's Prophecy; A Prophecy of the Mohocks and Hawkubites; A Meditation upon a Broomstick; Memoirs of P P Parish-Clerk; The Country Post; Stradling versus Stiles, (a Law Case); The Art of Political Lying; A Letter to a young Lady (Mrs. Rochfort) upon her Marriage; Thoughts upon Various Subjects Volume 3 The Booksellers Advertisement; The Narrative of Dr. Robert Norris, Concerning The Strange and Deplorable Frenzy of Mr. J---n D---is, an Officer of the Custom-house; A full and true Account of a Horrid and Barbarous Revenge by Poison, On the Body of Mr. Edmund Curll, Bookseller: With a faithful Copy of his Last Will and Testament; A Further Account Of the most Deplorable Condition of Mr. Edmund Curll, Bookseller; A Strange but True Relation How Edmund Curl, of Fleet street, Stationer, Out of and extraordinary Desire of Lucre, went into Change-Alley, and was converted from the Christian Religion by certain Eminent Jews: And how he was circumcis'd and initiated into their Mysteries; God's Revenge Against Punning; The Wonderfull Wonder of Wonders; The Wonder Of all the Wonders, that ever the World wonder'd at; To the Right Honourable The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London: The Humble Petition of the Colliers, Cooks, Cook-Maids, Blacksmiths, Jack-makers, Brasiers, and Others; Reasons Humbly Offer'd By the Company exercising the Trade and Mistery of Upholders, against Part of the Bill, For the better Viewing, Searching and Examining Drugs, Medicines, &c. 1724; Annus Mirabilis: or, The Wonderful Effects of the approaching Conjunction of the Planets Jupiter, Mars and Saturn; An Essay Of the Learned Martinus Scriblerus, Concerning the Origine of Sciences; Vigilius Restauratus; It cannot Rain but it Pours: or London strow'd with Rarities; An Infallible Scheme To Pay the Publick Debt of Ireland in Six Months; A Modest proposal For Preventing the Children of poor People in ireland, from being a Burden to their parents or Country, and for making them Beneficial to the Publick; A Vindication of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, The Lord Carteret, From the Charge of Favouring Tories, High-Church-Men, and Jacobites; An Essay on the Fates of Clergymen; An Essay on Modern Education; A Letter to the Intelligencer; A Second Letter to the Intelligencer; A True and Faithful Narrative of What pass'd in London during the general Consternation of all Ranks and Degrees of Mankind; On Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday last; The Journal of a Modern Lady; The Country Life; On Cutting down the old Thorn at Market Hill; A Pastoral Dialogue; Mary the Cook-Maid's Letter to Dr Sherridan; A Dialogue Between mad Mulhinix and Timothy; Epitaph; Epigram; Another Epitaph [of By- Words.] Epigram; Epigram; Epigram from the French; Epitaph; Epigram On the Toasts of the Kit-Cat Club, Anno 1716; To a Lady with the Temple of Fame; Verses To be placed under the Picture of England's Arch Poet: Containing a compleat Catalogue of his Works; Dr. Sw--- to Mr. P---e, While he was writing the Dunciad; On the Countess of B--- cutting Paper; On a certain lady at Court; A Soldier and a Scholar, or a Lady's Judgement on those two Characters. To Doctor D-l-y on the Libels Writ against him Volume 4 Of the Art of Sinking in Poetry; Cadenus and Vanessa; Baucis and Philemon. Imitated from the Eighth Book of Ovid; A Description of a City Shower. In Imitation of Virgil's Georg; A Description of the Morning; Horace, Epistle. VII. Book I. Imitated and Addressed to the Earl of Oxford. In the Year 1713; Horace, Lib. 2. Sat. 6. Part of it imitated; The Happy Life of a Country Parson. In Imitation of Martial; A Tale of Chaucer. Lately found in an old Manuscript; The Alley. An imitation of Spenser; The Capon's Tale: To a Lady who father'd her Lampoons upon her Acquaintance; Verses Wrote on a Lady 's Ivory Table-Book; To their Excellencies the Lords Justices of Ireland. The Humble Petition of Frances Harris, Who must starve, and die a Maid if it miscarries; Lady B--- B--- finding in the Author's Room some Verses unfinished, underwrit a Stanza of her own, with Raillery upon him, which gave Occasion to this Ballad; V ---'s House. Built from the Ruins of Whitehall that was Burnt; The History of V---'s House; The Virtues of Sid Hamet the Magician 's Rod; Atlas: or, the Minister of State to the Lord Treasurer Oxford; The Description of a Salamander. Out of Pliny's Nat. Hist. lib. 10. C. 67. & lib. 29. C. 4.; The Elephant: or, the Parliament Man. Written many Years since. Taken from Coke's Institutes; An Elegy On the Supposed Death of Partridge the Almanack-Maker; Verses To be prefix'd before Bernard Lintot's New Miscellany; To Mr. John Moore, Author of the Celebrated Worm-Powder; Verses Occasion'd By an &c. at the End of Mr Durfey's Name in the Title to one of his Plays; Prologue Design'd for Mr. Durfey's last play; Prologue to the Three Hours after Marriage; Sandy's Ghost: or a Proper New Ballad On the New Ovid's Metamorphosis. As it was intended to be Translated by Persons of Quality; Umbra; Fragment of a Satire; Macer; Sylvia, A Fragment; Artimesia; Phryne; On Mrs Biddy Floyd;Apollo outwitted. To the Honourable Mrs Finch, under her Name of Ardelia; Stella's Birth-Day. 1718; Stella 's Birth-Day. 1720; Stella 's Birth-Day. A great Bottle of Wine, long buried, being that Day dug up. 1722; Stella's Birth-Day. 1724; To Mrs M B Sent on Her Birthday; Song. By a Person of Quality; Ballad; Ode, for Musick, on the Longitude; Epigram on the Feuds About Handel and Bononcini;On Mrs T---s; Two or Three: or a Receipt to make a Cuckold; On a lady who P--st at the Tragedy of Cato; Occasion'd by an Epigram on a Lady who wept at it; Epigram, in a Maid of Honour's Prayer-Book; Epigram; The Balance of Europe; A Panegyrical Epistle to Mr. Thomas Snow, Goldsmith, near Temple-Bar; Occasion'd by his Buying and Selling the Third South-Sea Subscriptions, taken in by the Directors at a Thousand per Cent; The South-Sea; A Ballad on Quadrille; Molly Mog: or, the Fair Maid of the Inn; A New Song of New Similies; Newgate's Garland. Being A New Ballad; Prometheus. On Wood the Patentee's Irish Half-Pence; Strephon and Flavia; Corinna; The Quidnuncki's: A Tale. Occasion'd by the Death of the Duke Regent of France; AY and NO: a Fable; Phyllis: or, the Progress of Love; The Progress of Poetry; The Progress of Beauty; Pethox the Great; The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch For the Loss of Grildrig. A Pastoral; Mary Gulliver to Capt Lemuel Gulliver; To Quinbus Flestrin, The Man-Mountain. A Lilliputian Ode; A Gentle Echo on Woman; In the Dorick Manner; Epilogue to a Play, For the Benefit of the Weavers in Ireland; Epitaph on a Miser; To Stella, Who Collected and Transcribed his Poems; On Dreams. In Imitation of Petronius; To Stella, Visiting me in my Sickness. October 1727; Stella 's Birth-Day. 1726-7
