[95a] “As I hope to be saved;” a favourite phrase in the Journal.
[95c] This statement receives some confirmation from a pamphlet published in September 1710, called A Condoling Letter to the Tatler: On Account of the Misfortunes of Isaac Bickerstaf Esq., a Prisoner in the — on Suspicion of Debt.
[95d] Dr. Lambert, chaplain to Lord Wharton, was censured in Convocation for being the author of a libellous letter.
[95e] Probably the same person as Dr. Griffith, spoken of in the Journal for March 3, 1713,—when he was ill,—as having been “very tender of” Stella.
[96b] Vexed, offended. Elsewhere Swift wrote, “I am apt to grate the ears of more than I could wish.”
[96c] Ambrose Philips, whose Pastorals had been published in the same volume of Tonson’s Miscellany as Pope’s. Two years later Swift wrote, “I should certainly have provided for him had he not run party mad.” In 1712 his play, The Distrest Mother, received flattering notice in the Spectator, and in 1713, to Pope’s annoyance, Philips’ Pastorals were praised in the Guardian. His pretty poems to children led Henry Carey to nickname him “Namby Pamby.”
[97a] An equestrian statue of William III., in College Green, Dublin. It was common, in the days of party, for students of the University of Dublin to play tricks with this statue.