fteadinefs in adhering to them; his "care of his church, its choir, its œconomy, and its income; his attention to all thofe that preached in his ca66 thedral, in order to their amendment "in pronunciation and ftyle; as alfo his remarkable attention to the intereft of his fucceffors, preferably to "his own prefent emoluments; invincible patriotifm, even to a country which he did not love; his very va❝rious, well-devifed, well-judged, and "extenfive charities, throughout his

life, and his whole fortune (to fay "nothing of his wife's) conveyed to the fame chriftian purpofes at his death; charities from which he could, enjoy

"no

no honour,s advantage, or fatisfac❝tion of any kind in this world.

"When you confider his ironical and humorous, as well as his ferious fchemes, for the promotion of true religion and virtue; his fuccefs in "foliciting for the First Fruits and

"Twentieths, to the unfpeakable benea

"fit of the established Church of Ire land; and his felicity (to rate it no higher) in giving occafion to the “building of fifty new churches in "London.?

All this confidered, the character "of his life will appear like that of his writings; they will both bear to be "re-confidered and re-examined with

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the utmost attention, and always difcover new beauties and excellencies. "upon every examination.

They will bear to be confidered as "the fun, in which the brightnefs will "hide the blemishes; and whenever petulant ignorance, pride, malice, ma"lignity, or envy, interpofes to cloud "or fully his fame, I will take upon me "to pronounce that the eclipfe will not laft long.

To conclude-no man ever de"ferved better of any country than "Swift did of his. A fteady, perse"vering, inflexible friend; a wife, a watchful, and a faithful counsellor,

under many fevere trials and bitter

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"perfecutions, to the manifeft hazard "both of his liberty and fortune.

"He lived a bleffing, he died a be"nefactor, and his name will ever live " an honour to Ireland.".

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IN the Poetical Works of Dr. Swift there is not much upon which the critick can exercife his powers. They are often humourous, almoft always light, and have the qualities which recommend fuch compofitions, cafinefs and gaiety. They are, for the most part, what their author intended. The diction is correct, the numbers are smooth, and the rhymes exact. There feldom occurs a hard-laboured expreffion, or a redundant epithet; all his verfes exemplify his own definition of a good style,

they