A dialogue between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. in the isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, on that memorable day, October 9th, 1753 / By a friend to the peace and prosperity of Ireland.

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1753
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Credit: A dialogue between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. in the isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, on that memorable day, October 9th, 1753 / By a friend to the peace and prosperity of Ireland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [6] much better off than I-did, for where you met with one Reviler, I met with one hundred. The Pamph- lets wrote againft me, wou’d have form’d a, Library, or rather a Dormitory, where they might have flept in undifturb’d Repofe ; inftead of furnifhing Grocers. and Paftry Cooks for Years together, to make fome expiation for beggaring Printers and Bookfellers. I have had Thoufands written set me, with Virulence. and Scandal. * Prior. And what a wounding Grief muft that be, to your generous Mind, to have fo much Malice returned, where fo much Gratitude was due’; furely it gave you infinite Pain to be fo lafh’d and ftigmatifed, by a Rab- ble, of the moft invenom’d and ambitter ‘d ,Scriblers upon Earth ? ‘Swirt. Why, dear Zom, Icou’d laugh a Month: at you for this. Why, they made no more Impreflion on my Spirit, with their {currilous Pamphlets, than they . wou’d have done, on my Statue, had they thrown them at it. Tever confider’d, that Abufe from .fuch Scriblers, who write for a Livelihood, can no more be thought an Affront, than a Barber’s taking you by the Nofe; ’tis his Trade, andthe Wretch would ftarve if you ftopt him. What harm did all their Ribaldry dome? I neither eat, nor drunk, nor flept the worfe for it. Idon’t fuppofe, that the fcape Goaf, which the Fews loaded with Curfes, and drove into the Wildernefs, either died by-their Maledictions, or grew a whit the leaner for them ; nor was I ever the worfe for all I met with. Why Yom, one had as good be a fenfitive Plant, as to ftart and fly back, at every Touch,
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