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Swifty vol 25/30/2023 ![]() ![]() However, as the reader will have the whole in his possession, he may pursue either the grave or the gay with very little trouble, and without losing any pleasure or intelligence which he would have gained from a different arrangement. 'From grave to gay, from lively to severe,'Īppears frequently to be the effect rather of choice than accident. Pope, when they published the Miscellany, in which the transition "As to the pieces which have no connexion with each other, some have thought that the serious and the comick should have been put in separate classes but this is not the method which was taken by the Dean himself, or by Mr. As to the arrangement of particular pieces in each class, there were only three things that seemed to deserve attention, or that could direct the choice that the verse and prose should be kept separate that the posthumous and doubtful pieces should not be mingled with those which the Dean is known to have published himself and that those tracts which are parts of a regular series, and illustrate each other, should be ranged in succession, without the intervention of other matter: such are the Drapier's Letters, and some other papers published upon the same occasion, which have not only in the Irish edition, but in every other, been so mixed as to misrepresent some facts and obscure others: such also are the tracts on the Sacramental Test, which are now first put together in regular order, as they should always be read by those who would see their whole strength and propriety. "In the edition which is now offered to the publick, the Tale of a Tub, of which the Dean's corrections sufficiently prove him to have been the author, the Battle of the Books, and the Fragment, make the first volume the second is Gulliver's Travels the Miscellanies will be found in the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth and the contents of the other volumes are divided into two classes, as relating to England or Ireland. "In this collection, although printed in Ireland, the tracts relating to that country, and in particular the Drapier's Letters, are thrown together in great confusion and the Tale of a Tub, the Battle of the Books, and the Fragment, are not included. To these he afterward added a fifth and a sixth, containing the Examiners, Polite Conversation, and some other tracts which were soon followed by a seventh volume of letters, and an eighth of posthumous pieces. ![]() George Faulkner, at Dublin, in four volumes. "In the year 1735, the pieces of which the Dean was the author were selected from the Miscellany, and, with Gulliver's Travels, the Drapier's Letters, and some other pieces which were written upon particular occasions in Ireland, were published by Mr. ![]() Pope, having new-classed them, ascribed each performance among the prose to its particular author in a table of contents but of the verses he distinguished only the Dean's, by marking the rest with an asterisk. Of all these pieces, though they were intended to go down to posterity together, the Dean was not the author, as appeared by the title pages: but they continued undistinguished till 1742 and then Mr. "Many other pieces, both in prose and verse, which had been written between the years 16, were then collected and published by the Dean, in conjunction with Mr. " Gulliver's Travels were first printed in the year 1726, with some alterations which had been made by the person through whose hands they were conveyed to the press but the original passages were restored to the subsequent editions. "The Tale of a Tub, the Battle of the Books, and the Fragment, were first published together in 1704 and the Apology, and the notes from Wotton, were added in 1710 this edition the Dean revised a short time before his understanding was impaired, and his corrections will be found in this impression. ![]() Jonathan Swift were written and published at very distant periods of his life, and had passed through many editions before they were collected into volumes, or distinguished from the productions of cotemporary wits, with whom he was known to associate. John Hawkesworth, who thus introduces them: The earliest regular edition was in twelve volumes, 8vo, 1755 (reprinted in 1767), under the respectable name of the late Dr. This Preface shall give the history of those which have preceded it. AN Advertisement in the first volume has, in some degree, explained the nature of the present edition. ![]()
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