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LETTER S

TO AND FROM

DR. S W IF T.

LETTER XXXVII.

Dr. SWIFT to Lord BOLINGBROKE.

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Dublin, March 21 1729.

OU tell me you have not quitted the defign of collecting, writing, &c. This is the anfwer every finner who defers his repentance. I wish Mr. Pope were as great an urger as I, who long for nothing more than to fee truth under your hands, laying all detraction in the duft.- Í find myself difpofed every year, or rather every month, to be more angry and revengeful; and my rage is fo ignoble, that it defcends even to refent the folly and bafeness of the inflaved people among whom I live. I knew an old Lord in Liecefterfhire, who amufed himself with mending pitchforks and fpades for his tenants, gratis. Yet I have higher ideas left, if I. were nearer to objects on which I might emplo

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