Part 17

Johnson, Esther (Hester), 23-24, 29, 35, 36, 47, 57, 58-66, 74, 79, 91, 93, 94, 96, 97, 99, 102, 109, 117, 123, 125, 126, 129, 130, 131, 147, 148, 149, 158, 162, 163, 166, 168, 196, 205-210, 212, 213, 214-219, 220, 224, 231, 237, 246, 248, 266

Jones, Betty, 17, 18

Kendal, Duchess of, 172, 174

Kerry, Lady, 126

Kevin Bail, 241, 244

Kilkenny School, 8, 9, 96, 183

Kilroot, 30, 32, 33, 35, 40, 50, 53

King, William (Archbishop of Dublin), 79, 80, 82, 101, 108

Kit-Cat Club, 91, 131

Lagado, Academy of, 190

Laputa, 190-191

Laracor, 50, 58, 59, 66, 67, 72, 79, 80, 94, 117, 118, 125, 140, 141, 180, 183, 266, 267

La Rochefoucauld, 250, 251

Leicester, 5, 8, 16, 17, 29

Lewis, Erasmus, 96, 99

Lilliput, 178, 186-188, 189, 190, 238

Llandaff, Earls of, 181

Long, Anne, 91

Lucian, 186

Ludlow, Peter, 180

Luggnagg, 191

Marlborough, Duchess of, 103, 104, 114, 211

Marlborough, Duke of, 80, 92, 102, 103, 104, 105, 114, 120

Marsh, Narcissus (Primate of Ireland), 79

Martin (Martinus) Scriblerus, 136, 137, 181, 183, 192, 201

Mary, Queen, 19

Masham, Lady (Abigail Hill), 104, 110, 120, 127, 169

Masham, Lord (Samuel Masham), 132, 133, 135

Meath, Bishop of (John Evans), 141

Milton, 39, 226

Molière, 39

Montague, Charles. _See_ Halifax, Earl of

Moor Park, 19, 22, 27, 29, 32, 35, 40, 44, 58, 66, 69, 79, 183, 241, 258, 260

Newton, Sir Isaac, 38, 85

Nottingham, Earl of, 131, 187

Orford, Earl of, 69

Ormond, Duchess of, 143, 169

Ormond, Duke of, 67, 79, 82, 95, 105, 116, 117, 119, 132, 142, 200

Ormond family, 7, 8

Ormond, Marchioness of, 6

Oxford, 1st Earl of (Robert Harley), 95, 96, 98, 99, 100, 101-102, 103-105, 107-110, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 124, 126, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 142, 143, 169, 178, 187, 198, 200, 202, 212, 243, 246, 260

Oxford, 2d Earl of (son of Robert Harley), 97, 132, 143, 145, 177, 198, 200, 236

Oxford, University of, 22, 25, 27, 32, 48

Parnell, Thomas, 134, 136, 138, 200

Partridge, John, 89

Patrick (Swift’s servant), 125, 126, 129

Patriots, The, 202, 224

Pembroke, Earl of, 67, 79, 80, 81, 82, 85, 90

Penn, William, 97

Peterborough, Earl of, 98, 110, 117, 130, 200, 212

Philips, Ambrose, 93

Philostratus, 186

Pilkington, Letitia, 237, 239

Pilkington, Matthew, 237

Pope, Alexander, 37, 117, 135, 137, 141, 143, 144, 169, 170, 182, 198, 200, 201, 203, 204, 205, 209, 210, 211, 213, 216, 221, 222, 223, 224, 226, 233, 237, 240, 243, 251, 252, 254

Pope, Edith (mother of Alexander Pope), 203

Portland, Earl of, 28, 69

Pratt, Mrs. John, 126

Pretender, the (James Stuart), 107, 120, 142, 187

Primate of Ireland. _See_ Marsh, Narcissus, and Boulter, Hugh

Prior, Matthew, 98, 126, 132, 135, 200

Pug (Stella’s dog), 91

Pulteney, William. _See_ Bath, Earl of

Queensberry, Duchess of, 223

Rabelais, 186, 221

Rathbeggan, 58, 67

Raymond, Sir Robert, 132

Rembrandt, 39

Rivers, Earl, 102, 130

Rochfort, George, 180

Romney, Earl of, 49

St. Francis, 29

St. James’s coffee house, 67, 78, 90, 97

St. John, Henry. _See_ Bolingbroke, Viscount

St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, 50, 57, 67, 79, 119, 141, 142, 162, 213, 218, 220, 232, 241, 244, 263, 264, 267

St. Patrick’s, Liberty of, 177, 232, 240, 241

Sacramental Test, 85, 101

Salisbury, bishop of (Gilbert Burnet), 73

Scriblerus Club, 136-138, 182, 183, 192, 200, 201, 237

Shandy, Tristram, 136

Shelburne, Lord, 127, 131

Sheridan, Thomas, 180, 182, 202, 208, 214, 216, 224, 225, 237

Sican, Mrs. E., 237

Somers, Lord, 48, 68, 69, 73, 74, 76, 80, 81, 82, 85, 86, 90, 95, 200

Somerset, Duchess of, 114, 119

South, Robert, 84

Southwell, Sir Robert, 21, 22

_Spectator, The_, 92

Steele, Sir Richard, 89, 92, 93, 97, 99, 100, 200

Stella. _See_ Johnson, Esther (Hester)

Sterne, Laurence, 136

Stratford, Francis, 9, 10, 96

Sunderland, 2d Earl of, 49, 73

Sunderland, 3d Earl of, 80, 85, 94, 95, 103

Swift, Abigail Erick (mother of Jonathan Swift), 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 17

Swift, Abraham, 5

Swift, Adam, 5, 51

Swift, Barnam, 6

Swift, Dryden, 5

Swift, Godwin, 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 15

Swift, Jonathan (father of Jonathan Swift), 5

Swift, Jonathan (30 November 1667-19 October 1745): ancestry, 5; family connections, 5-7; born in Dublin a posthumous child, 6; taken to England in infancy for almost three years, 7; dependent on Godwin Swift, 7-15; at Kilkenny School from six to fourteen, 8-9; associates at school, 9; at Trinity College, Dublin, 1682 to 1689, 9-11; bachelor’s degree 1686, 10; discontent at Trinity, 10-15; reading, 11; academic irregularities, 12-13; health, 15-16; leaves Ireland for his mother’s lodgings in Leicester at the Revolution, 16; flirtations in Leicester, 17-18; joins household of Sir William Temple as secretary near end of 1689, 18; relations with Temple, 18-22; position as dependent, 21-22; returns to Ireland in summer of 1690 for year, 22; visits Oxford in 1691, 22; relations with other members of Temple household, 22-24; with Esther Johnson (Stella), 23-24; writes poetry in the Pindaric fashion, 25-27; renounces it, 26-27; _Occasioned by Sir William Temple’s Late Illness and Recovery_ (1693), 26; master’s degree from Hart Hall (Hertford College), Oxford, July 1692, 27; sent by Temple on errand to William III, spring 1693, 28; becomes conscious of misanthropy, 28-29; _To Mr. Congreve_ (1693), 28-29; walking, 30; desire for independence, 30; to Ireland May 1694, 30; ordained deacon October 1694, priest January 1695, 30; prebendary of Kilroot 1695-1696, 30-35; attitude towards the Church, 31-32; discontent at Kilroot, 32; flirtation with Jane Waring, 32-35; returns to Temple late in 1696, 35; improved position at Moor Park, 35; Swift’s aims in writing, 36-37; is drawn by Temple into the controversy over the ancients and the moderns, 38-40; writes _The Battle of the Books_ and _A Tale of a Tub_, 40-44; attitude towards mankind established by thirty, 45; leaves Moor Park on Temple’s death January 1699, 46; resolutions _When I Come to Be Old_, 46-47; goes to London but fails to find preferment at Court, 49-50; to Ireland June 1699 as chaplain to the Earl of Berkeley, 50; vicar of Laracor February 1700, 50; prebendary of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, 50; doctor of divinity of Trinity College, February 1701, 50; ends flirtation with Jane Waring, 50-54; attitude towards marriage, 54-57; loneliness at Laracor, 58; returns to England for April-September 1701, 58; persuades Stella and Rebecca Dingley to settle in Ireland in 1701, 58-59; relations with Stella in Ireland, 59-66; Swift is willing for her to marry William Tisdall, April 1704, 60-63; verses exchanged between Swift and Stella (1720-1721), 64-66; Swift’s life in Ireland 1700-1710, 66-67; chaplain to Ormond and Pembroke, 67; publishes letters, essays, and memoirs of Temple (1701-1709), 67; Swift among the wits in London, 67-68; _Discourse on the Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and Commons in Athens and Rome_ (1701), 68-72; thereby commends himself to the leading Whigs, 72-74; in England the winter of 1703-1704, 74-75; publishes _A Tale of a Tub_ (1704), 75; reception of the book, 75-77; rouses suspicion of his orthodoxy, 77; Swift at the St. James’s coffee house, 78; in Ireland from 1704 to 1707, 78-79; in England November 1707-June 1709, 80-93; lobbyist for the First Fruits for the Irish Church, 80-81; hates the Earl of Wharton, 81; fails to obtain promotion in the Church, 81-83; relations with the Earl of Halifax, 83-85; with other Whigs, 85; _A Letter ... Concerning the Sacramental Test_ (1708), 85-86; displeases the Whigs, 86; _Sentiments of a Church of England Man_ (1708), _Project for the Advancement of Religion_ (1708), _An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity_ (1708), 86-88; wins hearing from the coffee houses by his hoaxes on Partridge, 89-90; _Meditation on a Broomstick_, 89-90; life and associates in England during 1707-1709, 90-91; meets the Vanhomrighs, 90-91; Stella in London, 91; Swift’s relations with Addison and Steele, 92-93; revises _Baucis and Philemon_, 92-93; returns to Ireland and hardly leaves Laracor from June 1709 to September 1710, 93-94; goes to London on the fall of the Whigs, 94; looks towards the Tories, 96; is won over to the Tory side by Harley, 96-100; _The Examiner_ (1710-1711), 100; is estranged from Addison, 100; Swift’s Toryism, 100-101; his relations with Harley (afterwards the Earl of Oxford) and St. John (afterwards Viscount Bolingbroke), 101-102; his polemic against Marlborough, 105-106; against the Whigs, 106-108; his love for his associates, 108-110; his hate for his enemies, 111-114; _A Short Character of Thomas Earl of Wharton_ (1710), 111-114; lampoons the Duchess of Somerset in _The Windsor Prophecy_, 114; Swift’s defects as a politician, 114-116; master of requests, 116-117; made Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, April 1713, 118-119; summer of 1713 in Ireland, 119; back for winter of 1713-1714 in England, 119-120; farewell to Oxford, 120-121; portrait painted by Charles Jervas, September 1710, 121-122; _Journal to Stella_ (2 September 1710-6 June 1713), 123-124; a typical day as revealed in the _Journal_, 125-129; weekly dinners with Bolingbroke, 129-130; with Oxford, 130-131; with the Society of Brothers, 131-135; the Scriblerus Club organized early in 1714, 136; Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus, 136-137; Swift’s relations with Arbuthnot, Pope, Gay, Parnell, 137-138; returns to Ireland, September 1714, not to leave it for twelve years, 139; lives in morose retirement for five or six years, 140-146; offers to join Oxford in the Tower of London, 1715, 143; letters between Swift and his Scriblerus friends, 143-146; _A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet_ (1721), 146; _A Letter to a Young Clergyman_ (published 1721 but written 1720), 146; _A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture_ (1720), 146-147; printer of the _Proposal_ prosecuted, 147; relations with Esther Vanhomrigh (Vanessa), 147-167; meets her in 1708 in London, 147; undertakes to educate her, 147; a friend of the Vanhomrigh family, 149-150; letters between Swift and Vanessa during his visit to Ireland in 1713, 150-152; _Cadenus and Vanessa_ (apparently written 1713-1714, published 1726), 152-158; Vanessa follows Swift to Ireland 1714, 160; her pursuit and his discretion, 160-163; Swift proposes a sequel to _Cadenus and Vanessa_, 164-165; visits Vanessa at Celbridge in 1720, 165; break between them, after August 1722, 166-167; her death, June 1723, 166-167; Swift leaves for the south of Ireland the next day, 168; returns in September and resumes relationship with Stella, 168-169; _Stella at Wood Park_, 168-169; renews correspondence with English friends, 169; hatred of Ireland, 169-171; nevertheless becomes a champion of Irish freedom against the Whigs in England, 171-172; Wood’s copper coins, 172-173; the _Drapier_ letters (1724), 173-176; Swift becomes the idol of Ireland, 176-178; travels in Ireland, 180-181; writing _Gulliver’s Travels_ (1721-1725), 181-182; Gulliver one of Swift’s rôles, 183-184; his misanthropy matured, 184-185; his ingenuity in the _Travels_, 186; Lilliput, 186-188; Brobdingnag, 188-189; Laputa, 190-191; Houyhnhnms and Yahoos, 191-195; thinks of returning to England, 197-199; plans to write life of Oxford, 198; spends summer of 1726 in England, 199-210; disagrees with Walpole about the government of Ireland, 201-202; happy with Arbuthnot, Bolingbroke, Pope, and Gay, 202-203; with Pope and Gay at Twickenham, 203-205; Stella’s illness, 205-210; Swift’s letters about her to his Irish friends, 205-209; returns to Ireland in August, 209-210; received in Ireland like a Lord Lieutenant, 210; publishes _Gulliver’s Travels_ (28 October 1726), 211; immediate success, 211-212; again in England for the summer of 1727, 212-213; _Miscellanies in Prose and Verse_ (3 vols., 1727), 213; plans to go to France, 213; writes to French translator of _Gulliver_, 213; disappointed on the accession of George II, 213; returns to Ireland in September, 215-216; Stella’s last months and death (January 1728), 216-219; _On the Death of Mrs. Johnson_ (begun the night of her death, published after his death), 217-219; Swift defends _The Beggar’s Opera_ (1728), 220-221; pleased with Pope’s lines on Swift in _The Dunciad_ (1729), 221-222; continues his correspondence with his English friends but gets out of touch with England, 222-224; diversions in Ireland, 224-226; three visits to Sir Arthur Acheson during 1728-1730, 225-226; given the freedom of the City of Dublin in 1730, 227; _A Modest Proposal_ (1729), 227-230; increasing solitariness, 231-232; walking and riding, 232-234; eccentricity and eminence, 233-236; Dublin associates, 236-240; king in a nutshell, 240-241; Swift’s later literary activity, 242-244; _The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen_ (posthumous), 243; _Miscellanies_ (1732), 243; _The Works of J. S._ (4 vols., 1735), 243; _A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation_ (published 1738 but written before over a long interval), 244; _Directions to Servants_ (posthumous), 244; experiments and parodies in verse, 244-246; _The Lady’s Dressing Room_, _A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed_, _Strephon and Chloe_, _Cassinus and Peter_ (published 1732, 1734, but written during 1730-1731), 246-248; _On Poetry--A Rhapsody_ (published 1733), 248-249; _The Life and Genuine Character of Doctor Swift_ (1733), _Verses on the Death of Doctor Swift_ (1739), 250-254; Swift’s rôle of conjured spirit, 255-257; his misjudgment of his gifts, 257-261; his sufferings after 1740, 261-265; his last written words (1742), 263; guardians assigned him in the Court of Chancery in March 1742, 264; found by a commission to be of unsound mind and memory in August, 264; climax of his malady, September-October, 264-265; paralysis and apathy until his death, 265-266; death, 266; provisions and jests of his will, 266-267; epitaph, 267-268

Swift, Thomas, vicar of Goodrich, 5, 6

Swift, Thomas, son of the vicar of Goodrich, 6

Swift, Thomas, grandson of the vicar of Goodrich, 9, 10, 12, 22, 25

Swift, William, 5, 13

_Tale of a Tub, A_, 40, 43-45, 75-78, 97, 98, 114, 137, 241

_Tatler, The_, 89, 90, 92, 97, 128

Temple, Sir John (father of Sir William Temple), 18

Temple, John (nephew of Sir William Temple), 79

Temple, Lady (Dorothy Osborne), 23, 35

Temple, Sir William, 18-22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 30, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 45, 49, 58, 66, 67, 93, 114, 239, 241, 259

Timon, 185

Tisdall, William, 60-63, 78

Tonson, Jacob, 48

Trinity College, Dublin, 9-13, 22, 27, 30, 32, 50, 54, 83, 96, 183, 237

Twickenham, 201, 203, 204, 205, 208, 212, 213, 237

Utrecht, Treaty of, 118

Vanessa. _See_ Vanhomrigh, Esther (Hester)

Vanhomrigh, Esther (Hester), 3, 15, 56, 91, 147-167, 168, 181, 182, 191, 246

Vanhomrigh, Mrs. Hester (mother of Vanessa), 90, 147, 149, 150, 160

Vanhomrigh, Mary (sister of Vanessa), 160, 165

Varina. _See_ Waring, Jane

Velasquez, 39

Virgil, 40

Voltaire, 213

Wales, Prince of (George II), 200, 201, 203, 213

Wales, Princess of (Queen Caroline), 200, 211, 213, 252

Walpole, Sir Robert, 172, 173, 176, 186, 200, 201, 212, 213, 220, 222, 223, 240, 241, 249, 253, 264

Waring, Jane, 32-35, 50-54, 56, 57, 63

Wharton, Earl of, 81, 82, 85, 86, 93, 94, 95, 111-113, 114, 200

Whitshed, William (Lord Chief Justice), 147

William III (Prince of Orange), 19, 28, 30, 48, 49, 68, 69, 73, 103

William, Prince (son of George II), 201

Will’s coffee house, 67

Wood, William, 172, 173, 174, 176, 177

Worrall, John, 267

Wycherley, William, 213

Wyndham, Sir William, 132, 202

Yahoos, 193-196, 230

York, Archbishop of (John Sharp), 114, 118

Transcriber's Notes:

Italics are shown thus: _sloping_.

Variations in spelling and hyphenation are retained.

Perceived typographical errors have been changed.