Author:Jonathan Swift/Essays
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Essays
- An Account of the Court of Japan (1728)
- Advice to a Young Poet (c. 1721)
- On the Death of Mrs. Johnson (1728)
- A Discourse concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit (1710)
- An Essay on Modern Education (c. 1720)
- An Essay on the Fates of Clergymen (c. 1703-20)
- Hints on Good Manners (c. 1699-1736)
- Hints Toward an Essay on Conversation (c. 1713)
- Intelligencers (1728)
- A Letter to a Very Young Lady on Her Marriage (c. 1703-20)
- A Letter to a Young Clergyman (1720)
- A Letter to the Writer of the Occasional Paper (1727)
- Of the Education of Ladies (c. 1699-1736)
- On Mr. Collins's Discourse of Freethinking (1713)
- A Project for the Advancement of Religion and the Reformation of Manners (1709)
- A Proposal For Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue (1712)
- Resolutions for Old Age (1699)
- Some Arguments Against Enlarging the Power of Bishops (1723)
- Some Thoughts on Freethinking (c. 1713)
- Thoughts on Various Subjects (c. 1713)
- Thoughts on various Subjects (1726) (Not the same work as the other with the same title)
- A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding (1726)
- A Tritical Essay Upon the Faculties of the Mind (c. 1708)
- A Vindication of Erasmus Lewis (1713)
Historical Essays
- To the Count de Gyllenborg - Introduction to the Historical Essays (1719)
- Fragment of the History of England - Romans to 1066 (c. 1703)
- The Reign of William Rufus (c. 1703)
- The Reign of Henry I (c. 1703)
- The Reign of Stephen (c. 1703)
- The Reign of Henry II - A Fragment (c. 1703)
- Heads for Henry II's Character - Extracted from the Monks (c. 1703)
Character Essays
- Character of Dr. Sheridan (1738)
- Character of Herodotus (1720)
- Character of Mrs. Howard (1727)
- Character of Primate Marsh (1726)
- Of Mean and Great Figures Made by Several Persons (c. 1733-1736)
- Remarks on the Characters of the Court of Queen Anne (c. 1710-1739)
- A Short Character of Thomas Earl of Wharton (1710)
- Sketch of the Character of Aristotle (c. 1710-1730)
Commentaries on Works by Others
- Dedication to Sir William Temple's Letters (c. 1700)
- Observations on Heylin's History of the Presbyterians (1728)
- A Preface to Bishop Burnet's Introduction (1713)
- Preface to the Third Part of Sir William Temple's Memoirs (1709)
- Preface to the Third Part of Sir William Temple's Miscellanies (1701)
- Preface to the Third Volume of Sir William Temple's Letters (c. 1701)
- Preface to the Two First Volumes of Sir William Temple's Letters (c. 1700)
- Remarks on Bishop Burnet's History (1726)
- Remarks on Bishop Fleetwood's Preface (c. 1723)
- Remarks on Dr. Gibbs's Psalms (1701)
- Remarks upon The Rights of the Christian Church (1708)
Other Works
- Blunders, Deficiencies, Distresses, and Misfortunes of Quilca (1724)
- Decree For Concluding the Treaty Between Dr. Swift and Mrs. Long (1711)
- The History of Poetry, in a Letter to a Friend (1719)
- Polite Conversation (1738)
- Anecdotes of the Family of Swift (c. 1700-1740)
- Dr. Swift's Will (1740)
Duplicates
- The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff's Predictions
- The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers, (1707?)
- A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, (1731)
- Directions to Servants, (1731)
- The First He Wrote
- The Grand Question Debated, (1729)
- The Intelligencer (with Thomas Sheridan), (1710-????)
- The Lady's Dressing Room (1732)
- Meditations Upon a Broomstick
- On Poetry, a Rhapsody, (1733)
- On the Conduct of the Allies, (1713)
- Predictions for the Year 1708
- A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue, (1712)
- The Second Prayer
- Le Sage
- The Devil Upon Two Sticks
- Drapier's Letters
- An argument to prove that the abolishing of Christianity in England may, as things now stand, be attended with some inconveniences, and perhaps not produce those many good effects proposed thereby
- Hints Towards an Essay on Conversation
- A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet
- Thoughts on various subjects