T. Benfley, Printer, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London.

THE

WORKS

OF THE

REV. JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D.

Dean of St. PATRICK'S, DUBLIN.

ARRANGED BY THOMAS SHERIDAN, A.M.

WITH

Notes, Historical and Critical.

A NEW EDITION, IN NINETEEN VOLUMES;

CORRECTED AND REVISED BY

JOHN NICHOLS, F.S.A. EDINBURGH AND PERTH.

VOL. XVIII.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON; J. NICHOLS AND SON; R. BALDWIN; OTRIDGE AND SON,
F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON; T. PAYNE; R. FAULDER; G. ROBINSON; WILKIE AND
ROBINSON; K. LEA; J. NUNN; CUTHELL AND MARTIN; J. WALKER; T. EGERTON;
CLARKE AND SON; VERNOR, HOOD, AND SHARPE; SCATCHERD AND LETTERMAN;
LACKINGTON, ALLEN, AND CO.; J. CARPENTER; LONGMAN, HURST, REes, and orme;
CADELL AND DAVIES; W. MILLER; J. AND A. ARCH; S. EAGSTER; J. MURRAY ;
J. HARDING; R. H. EVANS; AND J. MAWMAN,

CONTENTS

TO THE

EIGHTEENTH VOLUME.

MISCELLANIES IN PROSE,

BY MR. POPE, DR. ARBUTHNOT, MR. GAY, &c.

Preface to the Miscellanies, by Dr. Swift and Mr. Pope.....

* Advertisement to a Fourth Volume.....

* Advertisement to the Fifth and Sixth Volumes....

Martinus Scriblerus IIɛg Balous: or the Art of Sinking in

Poetry....

II. That the Bathos, or Profund, is the natural Taste of

Man, and in particular of the present age.

III. The Necessity of the Bathos physically considered..

IV. That there is an Art of the Bathos or Profund....

V. Of the true Genius for the Profund, and by what it is

constituted..

.......

VI. Of the several Kinds of Genius in the Profund, and the

Marks and Characters of each....

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