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...a Tub, sent him a copy of his travels, in a blank leaf of which he had written the following lines: TO DR. JONATHAN SWIFT, The most agreeable companion,...Book is presented by his Most humble servant, THE AHTHOH. Though bashful, and more than ordinarily timid in mixed society, Addison was, as we have recorded...

...written the following lines: TO DR. JONATHAN SWIFT, The most agreeable companion, The truest friend, Ami the greatest genius of his age, This Book is presented by his Most humble servant, THE AUTHOR. Though bash ful, and more than ordinarily timid in mixed society, Addison was, as we have recorded...

...*rote th* following words : «' To Dr. JONATHAN SWIFT, The most agreeable companion, The truest fiiend, And the greatest genius of his age, This Book is presented by his Most humble servant, Tlte AUTHOR." Nliament to the contrary ; and this chiefly from a sort of lethargick disorder, which...

..."To Dr. JoH.NATHAN SwiFT, The most agreeable companion, The truest friend, And the greatest genins of his age, This book is presented by his Most humble servant, The AUTHOR." N. so successfully followed in the " Tale of a Tub." Perhaps there never was a richer vein of irony...

...present of his book of Travels to Dt Swift ; in the black leaf of which he wrote the following words : " To Dr. JONATHAN SWIFT, The most agreeable companion, The truest friend, And the greatest geoins of his age, This book is presented by his. , Jfiost humble servant, The AUTHOR.": IC so successfully...

...Melchisedec." person. A copy of Addisoii's travels, presented by him to our author, is inscribed " To Doctor Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the...presented by his most humble servant, the author." * Nor was Swift backward in expressing similar sentiments towards his distinguished contemporary. He...

...Melchisedec." person. A copy of Addison's travels, presented by him to our author, is inscribed " To Doctor Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the...presented by his most humble servant, the author." * Nor was Swift backward in expressing similar sentiments towards his distinguished contemporary. He...

...Tub, sent him a copy of his travels, in a blank leaf of which he had written the following lines : TO DR. JONATHAN SWIFT, The most agreeable companion,...friend, And the greatest genius of his age. This Book u presented by his Most humble Servant, THE AUTHOB. Though bashful, and more than ordinarily timid...

...the nobility, of the eighteenth century. Addison, who damned others with faint praise, in 1709 called Swift " the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his times " ; and nearly ten years later wrote to him thus : " I have always honored you for your good-nature,...