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Gulliveriana

or, a fourth volume of miscellanies. Being a Sequel of the Three Volumes published by Pope and Swift. To which is added, Alexanderiana; or, A Comparison between the Ecclesiastical and Poetical Pope. And many Things, in Verse and Prose, relating to the latter. With an ample Preface; and a Critique on the Third Volume of Miscellanies lately publish'd by those two facetious Writers [by Jonathan Smedley]

Smedley, Jonathan (1671-1729)

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[See! Gulliver's, is Milo's End]

[Dear Sid, then why wert thou so mad]

1. A New Discovery.

2. The Art of Metaphor.

3. A Sample of Satire on any Lieutenant General of the Army.

4. An Allegory taken from a Serpent, to express the most virulent Obscenity.

5. A Simile to express the same.

1. A Comparison between an OX and an ELEPHANT.

2 Between an ELEPHANT and a PARLIAMENT-MAN.

A King and A Cobler.

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The British Journal.

To Mr. Arb---; with the foregoing Tale.

The Forester and the Wood.

The Rose: By Mr. Philips.

Imitated, on a F---: By J--- S---.

An EPIGRAM. Imitation of Prior to Lord Dorset.

The Fly and the Wheel. A FABLE: Or, The Drapier and Wood Explain'd.

Apollo's EDICT.

A Poem upon Rover, a Lady's Spaniel.

EPILOGUE to Mr. Hoppy's Benefit-Night, at Smock-Alley.

To Lucinda, Toujours Gay.

On the Death of Old Nick.

VERSES, fix'd on the Cathedral Door, the Day of Dean Gulliver's Installment.

The Original of Punning, from Plato's Symposiacks.

An ELEGY on the much lamented Death of Mr. Damer, the famous Rich Man, who died the sixth Day of July, 1720, at Dublin.

A LETTER from the Quidnunc's at St. James's Coffee-house and the Mall, London, to their Brethren at Lucas's Coffee-house, in Dublin.

A LETTER to Mr. Ambrose Philips, on his Landing in Ireland, and being abused for his Poems, on Lord Carteret's Family, by many Irish Bards, especially Doctor Gulliver.

To a Clergyman, residing in a beautiful Vale in Norfolk, on his resolving to live in London.

An EPISTLE to his Grace the Duke of Grafton, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

[This Rod was slender, white and tall]

Tom Pun-sibi Metamorphos'd: Or, The Giber Gib'd.

A Lilliputian Ode; In Imitation of, and humbly Inscrib'd to, Captain Gulliver; sole Redivivor of the ancient Fescennine.

The Devil's Last Game:

From the Daily Journal, April 16. 1728.

From the Flying-Post, April 23. 1728.

On one of the Admirers of Pope's Translation, who said, There was a great deal of Wit in Homer.

Alexander P---e's Nosegay:

To be inserted in the next Edition of the Dunciad.

Epigram on the Translation of Homer.

[LUCAN] IMITATED.

On Reading Sawney, an Heroic Poem, in Answer to the Dunciad.

L---t's LAMENTATION.

King OBERON's Edict.

An Indian Tale: Occasion'd by the Verses, on the Quidnunchi's; Miscellanies, Vol. 3. p. 229, apply'd to the joint Authors of that Volume.

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The Rose: By Mr. Philips.

The Rose's Age, is but a Day;
Its Bloom, the Pledge of its Decay:
Sweet in Scent; In Colour Bright:
It Blows at Morn, and Fades at Night.