Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- General Editors’ Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- A Meditation Upon a Broom-Stick
- A Tritical Essay Upon the Faculties of the Mind
- Predictions for the Year 1708
- The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff ’s Predictions
- A Vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq.
- A Famous Prediction of Merlin, the British Wizard
- Tatler no. 230
- Harrison’s Tatler no. 5
- Harrison’s Tatler no. 20
- A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue
- A Modest Defence of Punning
- Hints towards an Essay on Conversation
- On Good-Manners and Good-Breeding
- Hints on Good Manners
- The Last Speech and Dying Words of Ebenezor Ellison
- Of the Education of Ladies
- A History of Poetry
- A Discourse to Prove the Antiquity of the English Tongue
- On Barbarous Denominations in Ireland
- Polite Conversation
- Directions to Servants
- Associated Materials
- I April Fool’s Joke, 1709
- II Specimens of Irish English
- III Laws for the Dean’s Servants
- IV The Duty of Servants at Inns
- V Notes for Polite Conversation
- VI Fragment of a Preface for Directions to Servants
- Appendices
- A A Dialogue in the Castilian Language
- B The Dying Speech of Tom Ashe
- C To My Lord High Admirall. The Humble Petition of the Doctor, and the Gentlemen of Ireland
- D ’Squire Bickerstaff Detected
- E An Answer to Bickerstaff
- F The Publisher to the Reader (1711)
- G The Attribution to Swift of Further Tatlers and Spectators
- H The Attribution to Swift of A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet
- I The Last Farewell of Ebenezor Elliston to This Transitory World
- J A Consultation of Four Physicians Upon a Lord That Was Dying
- K A Certificate to a Discarded Servant
- General Textual Introduction and Texual Accounts of Individual Works
- 1 General Textual Introduction
- 2 Textual Accounts of Individual Works
- Bibliography
- Index
List of Abbreviations
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- General Editors’ Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- A Meditation Upon a Broom-Stick
- A Tritical Essay Upon the Faculties of the Mind
- Predictions for the Year 1708
- The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff ’s Predictions
- A Vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq.
- A Famous Prediction of Merlin, the British Wizard
- Tatler no. 230
- Harrison’s Tatler no. 5
- Harrison’s Tatler no. 20
- A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue
- A Modest Defence of Punning
- Hints towards an Essay on Conversation
- On Good-Manners and Good-Breeding
- Hints on Good Manners
- The Last Speech and Dying Words of Ebenezor Ellison
- Of the Education of Ladies
- A History of Poetry
- A Discourse to Prove the Antiquity of the English Tongue
- On Barbarous Denominations in Ireland
- Polite Conversation
- Directions to Servants
- Associated Materials
- I April Fool’s Joke, 1709
- II Specimens of Irish English
- III Laws for the Dean’s Servants
- IV The Duty of Servants at Inns
- V Notes for Polite Conversation
- VI Fragment of a Preface for Directions to Servants
- Appendices
- A A Dialogue in the Castilian Language
- B The Dying Speech of Tom Ashe
- C To My Lord High Admirall. The Humble Petition of the Doctor, and the Gentlemen of Ireland
- D ’Squire Bickerstaff Detected
- E An Answer to Bickerstaff
- F The Publisher to the Reader (1711)
- G The Attribution to Swift of Further Tatlers and Spectators
- H The Attribution to Swift of A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet
- I The Last Farewell of Ebenezor Elliston to This Transitory World
- J A Consultation of Four Physicians Upon a Lord That Was Dying
- K A Certificate to a Discarded Servant
- General Textual Introduction and Texual Accounts of Individual Works
- 1 General Textual Introduction
- 2 Textual Accounts of Individual Works
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Parodies, Hoaxes, Mock TreatisesPolite Conversation, Directions to Servants and Other Works, pp. xxvi - xxxiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013