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A Supplement to Dr. Swift's Works; Containing Miscellanies in Prose and Verse,
A Supplement to Dr Swift's Works Containing Miscellanies in Prose and Verse Author:Jonathan Swift General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1765 Original Publisher: Printed for J. Nichols: sold by H. Payne, ... and N. Conant Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing ... more »text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE Papers that compofethefirftofthcfe volumes were printed about eighteen years ago, to which there are now added two or three finall trails ; and the verfes are tranf- ferred into the fourth volume apart, with the addition of fuch others as we fince have written. The fecond and third will confift of fe- veral finall treatifes in profe, in which a friend or two is concerned with us. Having both of us been extremely ill treated by i'onre bookfellers, efpedally one Edmund Curil, it was our opinion that the beft method we could take for juftifying ourfelves, would be to publifh whatever loofe papers, in profe and verfe, we have formerly written ; not only fuch as have already ftolen into the worli (very much to our regret, and perhaps very little to our credit) but fuch, as in any probability hereafter may run the fame fate ; having been obtained from us by the importunity, and divulged by the indifcretion of friends, although reftrained by promifes, which few of them are ever known' to obferve, and often think they make us a compliment in breaking. But the confequences have been ftill worfe We have been intitled, and have had our names prefixed at length, to whole volume of mean productions, equally offenfive to good manners and good fenfe, which we never law nor heard of till they appeared in print. For a forgery in fetting a falfa name to a writing, which miy prejudice another's for- B tuaejtune, the law punifhes the offender with the lofs of hi...« less