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Pope; Reflections on Mr. Pope's and Mr.

Gay's Circumftances.

Letter 38. Mr. Pope's Answer: His Situ-
ation, and Contentment: An Account of his
other Friends,

Letter 39. Lord Bolingbroke to Dr. Swift ;

A Review of his Life, his Thoughts of

Oeconomy, and concerning Fame.

Letter 40. Dr. Swift's Answer.

The Mif-

fortunes attending great Talents; concerning

Fame, and the Defire of it.

Letter 41. Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope. Con-

cerning the Dunciad, and of his Situation of

Life.

Letter 42. From Lord Bolingbroke. That
the Senfe of Friendship increaseth with the
increase of Years. Concerning an Hiftory of
his own Times, and Mr. Pope's moral Poem.
Letter 43. Of the Style of his Letters, of his
Condition of Life, his paft Friendships:
Diflike of Party-fpirit, and Thoughts of
Penfions and Preferment.

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Letter 44. Of Mr. Weftly's Differtations on
Job. Poftfcript by Lord Bolingbroke on the
Pleafure we take in reading Letters.
Letter 45. From Lord Bolingbroke to Dr.
Swift: Inviting him to England, and con-
cerning Reformation of Manners by writing.

Letter 46. From the fame. The Temper proper

to Men in Years: An Account of his own.

The Character of his Lady. Poftfcript by

Mr. Pope on his Mother, and the Effects of

the tender Paffions.

Letter 47. From the fame. Of his Studies,
particularly a metaphyfical Work, Of Retire-
ment and Exercife-Poftfcript by Mr. Pope.
His Wifh that their Studies were united in
Some Work useful to Manners, and bis Difafte
of all Party-writings.

LETTERS of Dr. SWIFT to Mr. GAY,

bury.

Letter 48. Concerning the Duchefs of Queenf-
Perfuafions to Oeconomy...
On the fame Subjects.
Letter 50. A Letter of Raillery,

Letter 49.

Letter 51. In the fame Style, to Mr. Gay and
the Duchefs.

Letter 52. Aftrange End of a Law-fuit. His
Way of Life, &c. Poftfcript to the Duchefs.
Letter 53.
Two new Pieces of the Dean's :
Anfwer to his Invitation into England,
Advice to write, &c.

Letter 54. More on the fame Subjects. An
happy Union against Corruption. Poftfcript
to the Duke of Queensbury, and the Duchefs.
Letter 55. Mr. Gay to Dr. Swift.

His Ac-
count of himfelf: His laft Fables: His Oeco-
nomy. Poftfcript by Mr. Pope, of their
common Ailments, and Oeconomy; and against
Party-Spirit in writing.

Letter 56. From Dr. Swift to Mr. Gay.
Congratulation on Mr. Gay's leaving the
Court; Lord Cornbury's Refufal of a Penfion.
Character of Mr. Gay,

Letter

Letter 57.

From the fame.

Concerning the
writing of Fables: Advice about Oeconomy,
and Provifion for old Age: Of Inattention,
&c. Poftfcript to the Duchefs.

Letter 58. From the fame to Mr. Gay, and

a Poftfcript to the Duchefs, on various Sub-

jects.

Letter

59. From the fame, concerning the open-
ing of Letters at the Poft-office. The Encou-
ragement given to bad Writers. Reasons for
his not living in England. Poftfcript to the
Duchefs; her Character; Raillery on the
Subject of Mr. Gay and himself.

Letter 60. From Mr. Pope and Dr. Arbuth

not to Dr. Swift. On the fudden Death of

Mr. Gay.

Letter 61. From Mr. Pope on Mr. Gay: His

Care of his Memory and Writings; concerning

the Dean's and his own; and of feveral other

things.

Letter 62. More of Mr. Gay, his Papers, and

Epitaph. Of the Fate of his own Writings,

and the Purpofe of them. Invitation of the

Dean to England.

Letter 63. Of the Dean's Verfes, called, A
Libel on Dr. D. the Spurious Character of
bim: Lord Bolingbroke's Writings: The
Indolence of great Men in Years.

Letter 64. From Dr. Swift.

Death. Invitation to Dublin.

Situation there, and Temper.

Letter 65. Answer to the former. His Temper
of Mind fince his Mother's Death. The Union
of Sentiments in all his Acquaintance.

Letter 66. Concern for his Abfence. Of a Li-
bel against him. Reflections on the Behaviour
of a worthless Man.

Letter 67.

Melancholy Circumftances of the
Separation of Friends. Impertinence of falfe
Pretenders to their Friendship. Publishers of
flight Papers. Of the Effay on Man, and
of the Collection of the Dean's Works.

Poftfcript by Lord Bolingbroke, concerning
his Metaphyfical Work.
The Anfwer.

Letter 68.

From Dr. Swift.

Of his own Amusements, the Effay on Man,
and Lord Bolingbroke's Writings.
Letter 69. Of the Pleafures of his Converfation;
of Dr. Arbuthnot's Decay of Health; of t
the
Nature of moral and philofophical Writings.
Letter 70. From Dr. Swift. On the Death

of Friends.
Letter 71. From the fame. On the Offence taken
at their Writings. Of Mr. Pope's Letters.
Character of Dr. Rundle, Bishop of Derry.
Letter 72. Concerning the Earl of Peterborow,
and his Death at Lisbon. Charities of Dr.
Swift.

Letter 73. From Dr. Swift. On the Death of
Friends. What Sort of Popularity he hath in
Ireland. Against the general Corruption.

Letter 74.

From the fame. His Kindness for
Mr. Pope, and his own infirm Condition.

Letter

Letter 75. Mr Pope to Dr. Swift. His Plan
for the fecond Book of Ethic Epiftles, of the
Extent and Limits of Human Reafon and
Science; and what retarded the Execution of
it.-Of Lord Bolingbroke's Writings. New
Invitations to England.

Letter 76. From Dr. Swift. His Refolution to

preferve Mr. Pope's Letters, and leave them

to his Difpofal after his Death.

His Defire

mentioned in the Ethic Epiftles.

Lofs of Friends, and Decays of Age.

What Sorts of Letters he now
writeth, and the Contraction of his Corre-
Spondence. Of the human Failings of great
Geniufes, and the Allowance to be made them.
His high Opinion of Lord Bolingbroke and
Dr. Swift as Writers.

Letter 78. From Dr. Swift. Of old Age, and
Death of Friends. More of the Ethic Epiftlès.
Letter 79. Of the Complaints of Friends-One
of the beft Comforts of old Age. Some of his
Letters copied in Ireland, and printed.
Of Lord Bolingbroke's Retirement. Of fome
new Friends, and of what Sort they are.
Letter 80. The prefent Circumstances of his
Life and his Companions. Wishes that the
laft Part of their Days may be paft together.

Letter 81. From Dr. Swift. Reasons that ob-

ftruct his coming to England. Defireth to be

remembered in Mr. Pope's Epiftles. Many of

Mr. Pope's Letters to him loft, and by what

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