[664]These assertions have been denied. See Roscoe's "Life of Swift," I. 14.—-Tr.
[665]"Don't you remember how I used to be in pain when Sir William Temple would look cold and out of humour for three or four days, and I used to suspect a hundred reasons? I have plucked up my spirit since then, faith; he spoiled a fine gentleman."—"Journal to Stella," April 4, 1710-11.
[666]"Directions to Servants," XII. ch. III. 434.
[667]"Mrs. Harris's Petition," XIV. 52.
[668]By the "Tale of a Tub" with the clergy, and by the "Prophecy of Windsor" with the Queen.
[669]"The Drapier's Letters, Gulliver's Travels, Rhapsody on Poetry, A modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of poor People in Ireland from being a Burden to their Parents or Country, and for Making them beneficial to the Public," and several pamphlets on Ireland.
[670]Letter to Lord Bolingbroke, Dublin. March 21, 1728. XVII. 274.
[671]Letter of Miss Vanhomrigh, Dublin, 1714, XIX. 421.
[672]These words are taken from a letter to Miss Vanhomrigh, July 8, 1713, and cannot refer to her death, which took place in 1721.—Tr.
[673]Letter to Bolingbroke, Dublin, March 21, 1728, XVII. 276.