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The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift (9); Contributions to "the Tatler," "the Examiner," "the Spectator," and "the Intelligencer."
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift Contributions to the Tatler the Examiner the Spectator and the Intelligencer - 9 Author:Jonathan Swift Volume: 9 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1902 Original Publisher: G. Bell Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you ... more »can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Numb. 29.l FROM THURSDAY FEBRUARY 8, TO THURSDAY FEBRUARY 15. I7IO-II. Inultus ut tu riseris Cotyttia ? 2 An Answer to the " Letter to the Examiner." 3 London, Feb. 15, I7)£. SIR, " I 'HOUGH I have wanted leisure to acknowledge the -I- honour of a letter you were pleased to write to me about six months ago; yet I have been very careful in obeying some of your commands, and am going on as fast as I can with the rest. I wish you had thought fit to have conveyed them to me by a more private hand, than that of the printing-house : for though I was pleased with a pattern of style and spirit which I proposed to imitate, yet I was sorry the world should be a witness how far I fell short in both. I am afraid you did not consider what an abundance of work you have cut out for me; neither am I at all comforted by the promise you are so kind to make, that when I have performed my task,4 " D[olbe]n shall blush in his 1 No. 28 in the reprint. [T. S.] 2 Horace, " Epodes," xvii. 56. "Safely shalt thou Cotytto's rites Divulge ?" -- T. Buncombe. [T. S.] 3 " A Letter to the Examiner. Printed in the year, 1710," appeared shortly after the issue of the second number of " The Examiner." It was attributed to St. John. [T. S.] The writer of the "Letter" invited the "Examiner" to "paint . . . the present state of the war abroad, and expose to public view those principles upon which, of late, it has been carried on ... grave among the dead, W[alpo]le among the living, and even Vol[pon]e shall feel some remorse." How the gentleman in his grave may have kept his countenance, ...« less