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Smedley, Jonathan, 1671-1729. A satyr. Canit, ante Victoriam, Triumphum

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Imprint: [Dublin] : Printed in the year, 1725.

First line: Most Reverend Dean, pray cease to Write;

View the Huntington Online Catalog record.

Printed. Jonathan Smedley's authorship is attested by Swift's answer to this attack upon him: 'A letter from D. S-t. to D. S-y', (1725).

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Date

1725

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143219

Provenance

Purchased from Frederick R. Halsey by Henry E. Huntington through George D. Smith, December 1915. The volume was put up for sale in 1890 by Robson & Kerslake and includes an 1895 bookplate of Swiftian collector Colonel Francis Richard Charles Grant (1834-1899).

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Smedley, Jonathan, 1671-1729. A petition to His G-----e the D----e of G---n

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Imprint: Dublin : printed in the year, 1724. First line: It was, my Lord, the dextreus shift, View the Huntington Online Catalog record. Printed. Anonymous. By Jonathan Smedley. With a few manuscript annotations.

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Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. An elegy on Dr. John Whalley, who departed the 17th. of this inst. Jan. 1724

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Imprint: [Dublin, 1724] First line: Well 'tis as learned Coats has guest, View the Huntington Online Catalog record. Printed. Attributed to Jonathan Swift (Teerink). An adaptation of Swift's 'Elegy on Mr. Patrige, the almanack-maker'.

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Swift, Jonathan. Letter to Deane Swift

Manuscripts

Dublin [Ireland]. Not in Swift's hand. The authorship of this letter is not certain, although it has been universally attributed to Swift. See also HM 31303, another version of the same letter, dated January 18, 1793.

HM 14372.

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A tale in allusion to a certain tale

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Imprint: [Dublin] : Printed in the year, 1731. First line: Good People, I pray ye attend and draw near, View the Huntington Online Catalog record. Printed. Handwritten annotation below title, "Being on the D. of Dors-ts Speech."

143249

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To the Honourable Mr. D. T. great pattern of piety, charity, learning, humanity, good nature, wisdom, good breeding, affability, and one most eminently distinguished for his conjugal affection

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Imprint: Dublin : printed by S. Harding, 1725. First line: What strange Disorder often Springs View the Huntington Online Catalog record. Printed. Sometimes attributed to Swift or Thomas Sheridan. With the name in the title annotated "Mr. Dick Tighe."

143228

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A poem upon R-r a lady's spaniel

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Imprint: [Dublin, 1725] First line: Happiest of the Spaniel Race View the Huntington Online Catalog record. Printed. Sometimes attributed to Jonathan Swift.

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Smedley, Jonathan, 1671-1729. A satyr. Canit, ante Victoriam, Triumphum

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