aching epitaph. It was to say to any traveller who came to see it that
the body of Jonathan Swift, Dean of this Cathedral, was buried here
in a place where his furious indignation could no longer lacerate his
heart. It was to tell the traveller to go and imitate, if he could,
this strenuous defender of manly liberty. The inscription was to be on
black marble, “in large letters, deeply cut and strongly gilded,” and
in the stately language of the Church and of the ancient Romans.
HIC DEPOSITUM EST CORPUS
JONATHAN SWIFT S.T.P.
HUJUS ECCLESIAE CATHEDRALIS
DECANI
UBI SAEVA INDIGNATIO
ULTERIUS COR LACERARE NEQUIT
ABI VIATOR
ET IMITARE SI POTERIS
STRENUUM PRO VIRILI LIBERTATIS VINDICEM
Bibliographical Note
Swift has here been allowed, so far as possible, to tell his own
story in his own words. They are to be found in his _Correspondence_,
magnificently edited by F. Elrington Ball (6 vols., 1910-1914), in
his _Prose Works_, competently edited by Temple Scott (12 vols.,
1897-1908), and in his _Poems_, inadequately edited by W. E. Browning
(2 vols., 1910) to accompany the _Prose Works_. These sources furnish
the text wherever Swift speaks in the biography, except in the
letters to Vanessa which, like her letters to him, are quoted from
the originals lately discovered and edited by A. Martin Freeman in
_Vanessa and Her Correspondence with Jonathan Swift_ (1921). The text
has been modernized. Since so little of what Swift wrote survives in
actual manuscript or in printed versions to which he gave much care,
to reproduce his spelling and punctuation from first or early editions
would be only to perpetuate the vagaries of his different editors and
printers.
Swift’s eighteenth-century biographers, with their passion for gossip,
were all superseded by Sir Walter Scott, who included in his _Works of
Jonathan Swift_ (19 vols., 1814) a memoir written with curiosity and
vigor, if not with exact knowledge. Scott in turn was superseded by
John Forster, whose _Life of Jonathan Swift_ (1875) unfortunately was
carried through only one of the three proposed volumes. The earliest,
and latest, extended, documented, exhaustive biography was Sir Henry
Craik’s _Life of Jonathan Swift_ (1882; 2d edition in 2 vols., 1894),
which remains the best detailed account of Swift’s life. Sir Leslie
Stephen’s _Swift_ (1882) is a masterly critical narrative. Compared to
it the study of Swift in Johnson’s _Lives of the Poets_ (1781) seems
full of Johnsonian wrong-headedness, and that in Thackeray’s _English
Humorists of the Eighteenth Century_ (1853) full of Thackerayan whimper
and sniffle. The only recent biographical studies of Swift which are
not negligible are Emile Pons’s _La Jeunesse de Swift et le Conte du
Tonneau_ (1925) and F. Elrington Ball’s _Swift’s Verse_ (1929), which
are both excellent.
Of Swift’s various works the best edited is _A Tale of a Tub: To Which
is Added The Battle of the Books and the Mechanical Operation of the
Spirit_, by A. C. Guthkelch and D. Nichol Smith (1920), followed
by _Swift: Selections from his Works_ edited by Sir Henry Craik
(1892-1893). As a rule the introductions and notes in Temple Scott’s
_Prose Works_ are as good as any. _The Journal to Stella_ is there
edited by Frederick Ryland, and _Gulliver’s Travels_ by G. R. Dennis.
_Gulliver’s_ _Travels_, one of the greatest books of the world, has
never been satisfactorily edited. When it has the editor it deserves
he will be saved a good deal of work by C. H. Firth’s acute _Political
Significance of Gulliver’s Travels_ (_Proceedings of the British
Academy_, Vol. IX, 1919) and by William A. Eddy’s lubberly but learned
_Gulliver’s Travels: A Critical Study_ (1923).
A bibliography of the writings of Swift is given in Vol. XII of Temple
Scott’s _Prose Works_, and a bibliography of writings by and about him
in Vol. IX (1912) of _The Cambridge History of English Literature_.
The present biography says in the text little more about the specific
works than Swift says himself. Titles and dates, however, are listed in
the Index in the entry “Swift, Jonathan,” which amounts to a precise
chronological survey of his life and of those writings which throw
light on it.
To cite all the general histories of Swift’s age, all the biographies
of his contemporaries, all the memoirs and diaries and letters and
special studies and collateral sources which have contributed to this
narrative would be mere ostentation. But all such sources have been
scrupulously consulted during the period of almost twenty years since
the book was first projected.
Most of Swift’s previous biographers have devoted much of their
energy to debating the many points of gossip which have arisen about
him, particularly about his malady, about his relations to Stella
and Vanessa, and about his eccentricities in Ireland. His latest
biographer has preferred to examine the entire evidence, to select what
he believes to be the truth, to tell it, and to leave gossip where
gossip belongs. He has considered it hardly fair to ask his readers not
only to read his story but also to choose which one of several stories
they would like to believe. His difficulties belong with the secrets of
his trade.
Index
Abingdon, Earl of, 128
Acheson, Sir Arthur, 225, 226
Acheson, Lady, 225, 226
Addison, Joseph, 48-49, 84, 85, 88, 89, 92-93, 96, 98, 99, 100, 109,
123, 124, 135, 145, 200
Agher, 58, 67
Ancients and moderns, 38-40
Anne, Queen, 82, 85, 97, 98, 104, 105, 108, 114, 116, 119, 120, 130,
131, 137, 139, 188
Arbuthnot, John, 127, 132, 135, 136, 138, 144, 169, 185, 199, 200,
201, 205, 210, 211, 212, 222, 223, 251, 252, 254
Argyll, Duke of, 220
Armagh, Archbishop of. _See_ Boulter, Hugh
Arran, Earl of, 116, 132
Ashe, St. George (Bishop of Clogher), 124, 181
Bach, 39
Bacon, Lord, 226
Balliol College, 22
Balnibarbi, 191
Barber, Mary, 237
Bath, Earl of, 200, 202, 224
Bathurst, Lord (Allen Bathurst), 132, 133, 200, 203, 230
_Battle of the Books, The_, 40-41
Baucis and Philemon, 92
Beef-Steak Club, 131
_Beggar’s Opera, The_, 213, 220, 221, 222
Berkeley, Countess of, 89
Berkeley, Earl of, 50, 58, 67, 68, 69, 82, 90
Bickerstaff, Isaac (pseudonym), 89
Blefuscu, 178, 187, 188
Blenheim, Battle of, 92
Bolingbroke, Viscount, 95, 99, 101, 102, 104-105, 107, 108-110,
115-116, 118, 119, 120, 128, 129, 130, 131,
132, 137, 138, 140, 142, 144, 145, 169, 181,
182, 200, 203, 205, 215, 222, 223, 227, 233,
252, 260
Bolingbroke, Viscountess, 143
Boulter, Hugh (Primate of Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh), 241
Brobdingnag, 186, 188-189
Brothers, Society of, 131-135, 200, 237
Brown, Tom, 186
Bunyan, 211
Cadenus (pseudonym), 152-167, 246
Carmarthen, Lady (daughter of Robert Harley), 124
Carteret, Lady, 176
Carteret, Lord, 173, 176, 188
Castle-Durrow, Lord, 238, 239
_Cato_, 123
Cervantes, 221
Charles I, 6
Charles II, 6, 19
Charles XII, 179
Chesterfield, Lord, 200
Chetwoode, Knightley, 180
Clogher, Bishop of. _See_ Ashe, St. George
Cobham, Lord, 203
Congreve, William, 9, 28, 48, 89, 133, 200, 203
Cope, Robert, 181
Country of Horses, 190, 193
Cowley, Abraham, 25, 26
Curll, Edmund, 252
Cyrano de Bergerac, 186
d’Ablancourt, Perrot, 186
Davenant, Henry Molins, 116
Davenant, Sir William, 6
Delaney, Patrick, 180, 237
Descartes, 38
Dingley, Rebecca, 58-59, 91, 123, 126, 129, 168, 205, 206, 207
Drapier, M. B. (pseudonym), 173-177, 227
Dromore, Bishop of (John Stearne), 181
Dryden, Sir Erasmus, 6
Dryden, John, 26, 38, 41, 48
Dublin, Archbishop of. _See_ King, William
_Dunciad, The_, 221, 222
Dunkin, William, 237
Dupplin, Viscount (son-in-law of Robert Harley), 97, 132, 133, 135
Eglinton, Earl of, 6
Evans, John (Bishop of Meath), 141
_Examiner, The_, 99, 102, 128
Faulkner, George, 237, 243
Feilding, Robert, 6
Fiddes, Richard, 116
First Fruits, 80-81, 85, 87, 94, 97, 98, 141
Flying Island, 190
Ford, Charles, 180, 181, 182, 237
Fountaine, Sir Andrew, 90, 91, 124
Gay, John, 136, 138, 145, 197, 201, 203, 204, 205, 211, 213, 220, 221,
222, 223, 233, 237, 250, 251, 252, 254
George I, 120, 142, 172, 174, 213
George II, 213, 249
Giffard, Lady, 22-23, 36, 114, 239
Glubbdubdribb, 190, 191
Godolphin, Earl of, 80, 85, 94, 95, 98, 103, 104
Grand Alliance, 103, 108
Granville, Lord (George Granville), 132, 133
Grattan, the brothers, 180
Grattan, James, 267
Grattan, John, 267
Grattan, Robert, 267
Grierson, Mrs. George, 237
_Gulliver’s Travels_, 3, 37, 178, 181, 183, 184, 185, 186-196, 204,
211-212, 213, 221, 222, 243, 259
Gwynne, Francis, 116
Halifax, Earl of, 48, 69, 73, 74, 76, 82, 83, 84, 85, 95, 96, 200
Hanover, Elector of. _See_ George I
Harcourt, Lord (Sir Simon Harcourt), 98, 102, 130, 132, 200
Harley, Robert. _See_ Oxford, Earl of
Harrison, William, 134
Hart Hall, 27
Harvey, George, 38
Helsham, Richard, 237
Henry VIII, 187
Hertford College (Hart Hall), 27
Hill, Abigail. _See_ Masham, Lady
Hobbes, 38
Homer, 117, 138, 201
Howard, Henrietta, 200, 203
Houyhnhnms, 190, 191, 193-196, 230
Hunter, Robert, 93, 119
_Intelligencer, The_, 224, 225
Jackson, John, 267
Jervas, Charles, 122
Johnson, Bridget (mother of Stella), 23, 36, 58, 126
Johnson, Edward (father of Stella), 23
Johnson, Esther (Hester), 23-24, 29, 35, 36, 47, 57, 58-66, 74, 79,
91, 93, 94, 96, 97, 99, 102, 109, 117, 123,
125, 126, 129, 130, 131, 147, 148, 149, 158,
162, 163, 166, 168, 196, 205-210, 212, 213,
214-219, 220, 224, 231, 237, 246, 248, 266
Jones, Betty, 17, 18
Kendal, Duchess of, 172, 174
Kerry, Lady, 126
Kevin Bail, 241, 244
Kilkenny School, 8, 9, 96, 183
Kilroot, 30, 32, 33, 35, 40, 50, 53
King, William (Archbishop of Dublin), 79, 80, 82, 101, 108
Kit-Cat Club, 91, 131
Lagado, Academy of, 190
Laputa, 190-191
Laracor, 50, 58, 59, 66, 67, 72, 79, 80, 94, 117, 118, 125, 140, 141,
180, 183, 266, 267
La Rochefoucauld, 250, 251
Leicester, 5, 8, 16, 17, 29
Lewis, Erasmus, 96, 99
Lilliput, 178, 186-188, 189, 190, 238
Llandaff, Earls of, 181
Long, Anne, 91
Lucian, 186
Ludlow, Peter, 180
Luggnagg, 191
Marlborough, Duchess of, 103, 104, 114, 211
Marlborough, Duke of, 80, 92, 102, 103, 104, 105, 114, 120
Marsh, Narcissus (Primate of Ireland), 79
Martin (Martinus) Scriblerus, 136, 137, 181, 183, 192, 201
Mary, Queen, 19
Masham, Lady (Abigail Hill), 104, 110, 120, 127, 169
Masham, Lord (Samuel Masham), 132, 133, 135
Meath, Bishop of (John Evans), 141
Milton, 39, 226
Molière, 39
Montague, Charles. _See_ Halifax, Earl of
Moor Park, 19, 22, 27, 29, 32, 35, 40, 44, 58, 66, 69, 79, 183, 241,
258, 260
Newton, Sir Isaac, 38, 85
Nottingham, Earl of, 131, 187
Orford, Earl of, 69
Ormond, Duchess of, 143, 169
Ormond, Duke of, 67, 79, 82, 95, 105, 116, 117, 119, 132, 142, 200
Ormond family, 7, 8
Ormond, Marchioness of, 6
Oxford, 1st Earl of (Robert Harley), 95, 96, 98, 99, 100, 101-102,
103-105, 107-110, 115, 116, 117,
118, 119, 120, 124, 126, 128,
129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134,
135, 136, 137, 142, 143, 169,
178, 187, 198, 200, 202, 212,
243, 246, 260
Oxford, 2d Earl of (son of Robert Harley), 97, 132, 143, 145, 177,
198, 200, 236
Oxford, University of, 22, 25, 27, 32, 48
Parnell, Thomas, 134, 136, 138, 200
Partridge, John, 89
Patrick (Swift’s servant), 125, 126, 129
Patriots, The, 202, 224
Pembroke, Earl of, 67, 79, 80, 81, 82, 85, 90
Penn, William, 97
Peterborough, Earl of, 98, 110, 117, 130, 200, 212
Philips, Ambrose, 93
Philostratus, 186
Pilkington, Letitia, 237, 239
Pilkington, Matthew, 237
Pope, Alexander, 37, 117, 135, 137, 141, 143, 144, 169, 170, 182, 198,
200, 201, 203, 204, 205, 209, 210, 211, 213, 216,
221, 222, 223, 224, 226, 233, 237, 240, 243, 251,
252, 254
Pope, Edith (mother of Alexander Pope), 203
Portland, Earl of, 28, 69
Pratt, Mrs. John, 126
Pretender, the (James Stuart), 107, 120, 142, 187
Primate of Ireland. _See_ Marsh, Narcissus, and Boulter, Hugh
Prior, Matthew, 98, 126, 132, 135, 200
Pug (Stella’s dog), 91
Pulteney, William. _See_ Bath, Earl of
Queensberry, Duchess of, 223
Rabelais, 186, 221
Rathbeggan, 58, 67
Raymond, Sir Robert, 132
Rembrandt, 39
Rivers, Earl, 102, 130
Rochfort, George, 180
Romney, Earl of, 49
St. Francis, 29
St. James’s coffee house, 67, 78, 90, 97
St. John, Henry. _See_ Bolingbroke, Viscount
St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, 50, 57, 67, 79, 119, 141, 142, 162,
213, 218, 220, 232, 241, 244, 263,
264, 267
St. Patrick’s, Liberty of, 177, 232, 240, 241
Sacramental Test, 85, 101
Salisbury, bishop of (Gilbert Burnet), 73
Scriblerus Club, 136-138, 182, 183, 192, 200, 201, 237
Shandy, Tristram, 136
Shelburne, Lord, 127, 131
Sheridan, Thomas, 180, 182, 202, 208, 214, 216, 224, 225, 237
Sican, Mrs. E., 237
Somers, Lord, 48, 68, 69, 73, 74, 76, 80, 81, 82, 85, 86, 90, 95, 200
Somerset, Duchess of, 114, 119
South, Robert, 84
Southwell, Sir Robert, 21, 22
_Spectator, The_, 92
Steele, Sir Richard, 89, 92, 93, 97, 99, 100, 200
Stella. _See_ Johnson, Esther (Hester)
Sterne, Laurence, 136
Stratford, Francis, 9, 10, 96
Sunderland, 2d Earl of, 49, 73
Sunderland, 3d Earl of, 80, 85, 94, 95, 103
Swift, Abigail Erick (mother of Jonathan Swift), 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 17
Swift, Abraham, 5
Swift, Adam, 5, 51
Swift, Barnam, 6
Swift, Dryden, 5
Swift, Godwin, 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 15
Swift, Jonathan (father of Jonathan Swift), 5
Swift, Jonathan (30 November 1667-19 October 1745):
ancestry, 5;
family connections, 5-7;
born in Dublin a posthumous child, 6;
taken to England in infancy for almost three years, 7;
dependent on Godwin Swift, 7-15;
at Kilkenny School from six to fourteen, 8-9;
associates at school, 9;
at Trinity College, Dublin, 1682 to 1689, 9-11;
bachelor’s degree 1686, 10;
discontent at Trinity, 10-15;
reading, 11;
academic irregularities, 12-13;
health, 15-16;
leaves Ireland for his mother’s lodgings in Leicester at the
Revolution, 16;
flirtations in Leicester, 17-18;
joins household of Sir William Temple as secretary near end of
1689, 18;
relations with Temple, 18-22;
position as dependent, 21-22;
returns to Ireland in summer of 1690 for year, 22;
visits Oxford in 1691, 22;
relations with other members of Temple household, 22-24;
with Esther Johnson (Stella), 23-24;
writes poetry in the Pindaric fashion, 25-27;
renounces it, 26-27;
_Occasioned by Sir William Temple’s Late Illness and Recovery_
(1693), 26;
master’s degree from Hart Hall (Hertford College), Oxford,
July 1692, 27;
sent by Temple on errand to William III, spring 1693, 28;
becomes conscious of misanthropy, 28-29;
_To Mr. Congreve_ (1693), 28-29;
walking, 30;
desire for independence, 30;
to Ireland May 1694, 30;
ordained deacon October 1694,
priest January 1695, 30;
prebendary of Kilroot 1695-1696, 30-35;
attitude towards the Church, 31-32;
discontent at Kilroot, 32;
flirtation with Jane Waring, 32-35;
returns to Temple late in 1696, 35;
improved position at Moor Park, 35;
Swift’s aims in writing, 36-37;
is drawn by Temple into the controversy over the ancients and the
moderns, 38-40;
writes _The Battle of the Books_ and _A Tale of a Tub_, 40-44;
attitude towards mankind established by thirty, 45;
leaves Moor Park on Temple’s death January 1699, 46;
resolutions _When I Come to Be Old_, 46-47;
goes to London but fails to find preferment at Court, 49-50;
to Ireland June 1699 as chaplain to the Earl of Berkeley, 50;
vicar of Laracor February 1700, 50;
prebendary of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, 50;
doctor of divinity of Trinity College, February 1701, 50;
ends flirtation with Jane Waring, 50-54;
attitude towards marriage, 54-57;
loneliness at Laracor, 58;
returns to England for April-September 1701, 58;
persuades Stella and Rebecca Dingley to settle in Ireland in
1701, 58-59;
relations with Stella in Ireland, 59-66;
Swift is willing for her to marry William Tisdall, April 1704,
60-63;
verses exchanged between Swift and Stella (1720-1721), 64-66;
Swift’s life in Ireland 1700-1710, 66-67;
chaplain to Ormond and Pembroke, 67;
publishes letters, essays, and memoirs of Temple (1701-1709), 67;
Swift among the wits in London, 67-68;
_Discourse on the Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and
Commons in Athens and Rome_ (1701), 68-72;
thereby commends himself to the leading Whigs, 72-74;
in England the winter of 1703-1704, 74-75;
publishes _A Tale of a Tub_ (1704), 75;
reception of the book, 75-77;
rouses suspicion of his orthodoxy, 77;
Swift at the St. James’s coffee house, 78;
in Ireland from 1704 to 1707, 78-79;
in England November 1707-June 1709, 80-93;
lobbyist for the First Fruits
for the Irish Church, 80-81;
hates the Earl of Wharton, 81;
fails to obtain promotion in the Church, 81-83;
relations with the Earl of Halifax, 83-85;
with other Whigs, 85;
_A Letter ... Concerning the Sacramental Test_ (1708), 85-86;
displeases the Whigs, 86;
_Sentiments of a Church of England Man_ (1708), _Project for the
Advancement of Religion_ (1708), _An Argument Against Abolishing
Christianity_ (1708), 86-88;
wins hearing from the coffee houses by his hoaxes on Partridge,
89-90;
_Meditation on a Broomstick_, 89-90;
life and associates in England during 1707-1709, 90-91;
meets the Vanhomrighs, 90-91;
Stella in London, 91;
Swift’s relations with Addison and Steele, 92-93;
revises _Baucis and Philemon_, 92-93;
returns to Ireland and hardly leaves Laracor from June 1709 to
September 1710, 93-94;
goes to London on the fall of the Whigs, 94;
looks towards the Tories, 96;
is won over to the Tory side by Harley, 96-100;
_The Examiner_ (1710-1711), 100;
is estranged from Addison, 100;
Swift’s Toryism, 100-101;
his relations with Harley (afterwards the Earl of Oxford) and
St. John (afterwards Viscount Bolingbroke), 101-102;
his polemic against Marlborough, 105-106;
against the Whigs, 106-108;
his love for his associates, 108-110;
his hate for his enemies, 111-114;
_A Short Character of Thomas Earl of Wharton_ (1710), 111-114;
lampoons the Duchess of Somerset in _The Windsor Prophecy_, 114;
Swift’s defects as a politician, 114-116;
master of requests, 116-117;
made Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, April 1713, 118-119;
summer of 1713 in Ireland, 119;
back for winter of 1713-1714 in England, 119-120;
farewell to Oxford, 120-121;
portrait painted by Charles Jervas, September 1710, 121-122;
_Journal to Stella_ (2 September 1710-6 June 1713), 123-124;
a typical day as revealed in the _Journal_, 125-129;
weekly dinners with Bolingbroke, 129-130;
with Oxford, 130-131;
with the Society of Brothers, 131-135;
the Scriblerus Club organized early in 1714, 136;
Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus, 136-137;
Swift’s relations with Arbuthnot, Pope, Gay, Parnell, 137-138;
returns to Ireland, September 1714, not to leave it for twelve
years, 139;
lives in morose retirement for five or six years, 140-146;
offers to join Oxford in the Tower of London, 1715, 143;
letters between Swift and his Scriblerus friends, 143-146;
_A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet_ (1721), 146;
_A Letter to a Young Clergyman_ (published 1721 but written 1720),
146;
_A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture_ (1720),
146-147;
printer of the _Proposal_ prosecuted, 147;
relations with Esther Vanhomrigh (Vanessa), 147-167;
meets her in 1708 in London, 147;
undertakes to educate her, 147;
a friend of the Vanhomrigh family, 149-150;
letters between Swift and Vanessa during his visit to Ireland in
1713, 150-152;
_Cadenus and Vanessa_ (apparently written 1713-1714, published
1726), 152-158;
Vanessa follows Swift to Ireland 1714, 160;
her pursuit and his discretion, 160-163;
Swift proposes a sequel to _Cadenus and Vanessa_, 164-165;
visits Vanessa at Celbridge in 1720, 165;
break between them, after August 1722, 166-167;
her death, June 1723, 166-167;
Swift leaves for the south of Ireland the next day, 168;
returns in September and resumes relationship with Stella, 168-169;
_Stella at Wood Park_, 168-169;
renews correspondence with English friends, 169;
hatred of Ireland, 169-171;
nevertheless becomes a champion of Irish freedom against the Whigs
in England, 171-172;
Wood’s copper coins, 172-173;
the _Drapier_ letters (1724), 173-176;
Swift becomes the idol of Ireland, 176-178;
travels in Ireland, 180-181;
writing _Gulliver’s Travels_ (1721-1725), 181-182;
Gulliver one of Swift’s rôles, 183-184;
his misanthropy matured, 184-185;
his ingenuity in the _Travels_, 186;
Lilliput, 186-188;
Brobdingnag, 188-189;
Laputa, 190-191;
Houyhnhnms and Yahoos, 191-195;
thinks of returning to England, 197-199;
plans to write life of Oxford, 198;
spends summer of 1726 in England, 199-210;
disagrees with Walpole about the government of Ireland, 201-202;
happy with Arbuthnot, Bolingbroke, Pope, and Gay, 202-203;
with Pope and Gay at Twickenham, 203-205;
Stella’s illness, 205-210;
Swift’s letters about her to his Irish friends, 205-209;
returns to Ireland in August, 209-210;
received in Ireland like a Lord Lieutenant, 210;
publishes _Gulliver’s Travels_ (28 October 1726), 211;
immediate success, 211-212;
again in England for the summer of 1727, 212-213;
_Miscellanies in Prose and Verse_ (3 vols., 1727), 213;
plans to go to France, 213;
writes to French translator of _Gulliver_, 213;
disappointed on the accession of George II, 213;
returns to Ireland in September, 215-216;
Stella’s last months and death (January 1728), 216-219;
_On the Death of Mrs. Johnson_ (begun the night of her death,
published after his death), 217-219;
Swift defends _The Beggar’s Opera_ (1728), 220-221;
pleased with Pope’s lines on Swift in _The Dunciad_ (1729), 221-222;
continues his correspondence with his English friends but gets out
of touch with England, 222-224;
diversions in Ireland, 224-226;
three visits to Sir Arthur Acheson during 1728-1730, 225-226;
given the freedom of the City of Dublin in 1730, 227;
_A Modest Proposal_ (1729), 227-230;
increasing solitariness, 231-232;
walking and riding, 232-234;
eccentricity and eminence, 233-236;
Dublin associates, 236-240;
king in a nutshell, 240-241;
Swift’s later literary activity, 242-244;
_The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen_ (posthumous), 243;
_Miscellanies_ (1732), 243;
_The Works of J. S._ (4 vols., 1735), 243;
_A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation_
(published 1738 but written before over a long interval), 244;
_Directions to Servants_ (posthumous), 244;
experiments and parodies in verse, 244-246;
_The Lady’s Dressing Room_, _A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed_,
_Strephon and Chloe_, _Cassinus and Peter_ (published 1732, 1734,
but written during 1730-1731), 246-248;
_On Poetry--A Rhapsody_ (published 1733), 248-249;
_The Life and Genuine Character of Doctor Swift_ (1733), _Verses on
the Death of Doctor Swift_ (1739), 250-254;
Swift’s rôle of conjured spirit, 255-257;
his misjudgment of his gifts, 257-261;
his sufferings after 1740, 261-265;
his last written words (1742), 263;
guardians assigned him in the Court of Chancery in March 1742, 264;
found by a commission to be of unsound mind and memory in August,
264;
climax of his malady, September-October, 264-265;
paralysis and apathy until his death, 265-266;
death, 266;
provisions and jests of his will, 266-267;
epitaph, 267-268
Swift, Thomas, vicar of Goodrich, 5, 6
Swift, Thomas, son of the vicar of Goodrich, 6
Swift, Thomas, grandson of the vicar of Goodrich, 9, 10, 12, 22, 25
Swift, William, 5, 13
_Tale of a Tub, A_, 40, 43-45, 75-78, 97, 98, 114, 137, 241
_Tatler, The_, 89, 90, 92, 97, 128
Temple, Sir John (father of Sir William Temple), 18
Temple, John (nephew of Sir William Temple), 79
Temple, Lady (Dorothy Osborne), 23, 35
Temple, Sir William, 18-22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 30, 35, 36, 38, 39,
40, 41, 42, 44, 45, 49, 58, 66, 67, 93, 114, 239,
241, 259
Timon, 185
Tisdall, William, 60-63, 78
Tonson, Jacob, 48
Trinity College, Dublin, 9-13, 22, 27, 30, 32, 50, 54, 83, 96, 183,
237
Twickenham, 201, 203, 204, 205, 208, 212, 213, 237
Utrecht, Treaty of, 118
Vanessa. _See_ Vanhomrigh, Esther (Hester)
Vanhomrigh, Esther (Hester), 3, 15, 56, 91, 147-167, 168, 181, 182,
191, 246
Vanhomrigh, Mrs. Hester (mother of Vanessa), 90, 147, 149, 150, 160
Vanhomrigh, Mary (sister of Vanessa), 160, 165
Varina. _See_ Waring, Jane
Velasquez, 39
Virgil, 40
Voltaire, 213
Wales, Prince of (George II), 200, 201, 203, 213
Wales, Princess of (Queen Caroline), 200, 211, 213, 252
Walpole, Sir Robert, 172, 173, 176, 186, 200, 201, 212, 213, 220, 222,
223, 240, 241, 249, 253, 264
Waring, Jane, 32-35, 50-54, 56, 57, 63
Wharton, Earl of, 81, 82, 85, 86, 93, 94, 95, 111-113, 114, 200
Whitshed, William (Lord Chief Justice), 147