[654]Letter to Bolingbroke, Dublin, April 5, 1729.
[655]"Journal to Stella," II. September 9, 1710.
[656]Ibid. September 30, 1710.
[657]Ibid. November 8, 1710.
[658]"Swift's Life," by Roscoe, I. 56.
[659]"Swift's Life," by W. Scott, I. 379.
[660]Sheridan's "Life of Swift."
[661]W. Scott's "Life of Swift," I. 477.
[662]At that time he had already begun the "Tale of a Tub."
[663]He addresses his muse thus, in "Verses occasioned by Sir William Temple's late illness and recovery," XIV. 45:
"Wert thou right woman, thou should'st
scorn to look
On an abandoned wretch by hopes
forsook;
Forsook by hopes, ill fortune's last
relief.
Assign'd for life to unremitting grief;
"To thee I owe that fatal bent of mind
Still to unhappy restless thoughts
inclined;
To thee, what oft I vainly strive to
hide,
That scorn of fools, by fools mistook
for pride."