Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World

by Leo Damrosch

  Cleveland, Duchess of, 30

  clichés, 104–5

  Clifford, James L., 522n46

  Clonfert (Ireland), 345

  Clonfert, bishop of, 415

  Club (English politics), 206–7, 241, 242, 252, 256, 257

  C.M.P.G.N.S.T.N.S., 52, 71; cryptanalysis of, 53

  coal, 343

  Cobbett, William, 133

  Cobham, Lord, 382

  Cockayne, Emily, 495n8

  coffee, Pope on, 178

  “coffee” (Vanessa-Swift code word), 1–2, 235, 236, 240, 327–28, 329, 330

  coffeehouses, 178, 204–5; as brothels, 328; Spectator coterie and, 241; Swift’s practical jokes and, 187–88

  coinage: Swift protest and, 461. See also halfpence

  Coleire, Richard, 176

  Coleridge, Samuel, 134

  Collection of the Several Statutes, and Parts of Statutes, Now in Force, . . . Relating to High Treason and Misprision of High Treason (legal treatise), 287

  Colum, Padraic, 369

  Communion. See Holy Communion

  Compton Hall. See Moor Park

  compulsive personality, 69

  Conduct of the Allies, The (Swift), 250–51, 256

  Congreve, William, 19, 180, 181, 245; Swift ode to, 84, 86; The Way of the World, 180

  Connolly, S. J. (historian), 344

  Connolly, Squire, 351

  Connor, cathedral of (Ireland), 75

  Contests and Dissensions in Athens and Rome (Swift), 127, 128–30, 131, 158

  Coote, H., 232

  Cope, Robert, 347

  Copernican system, 87

  Copyright Act (1710), 135

  Corinthians, First Epistle to the, 467

  Cork (Ireland), 345, 414–15

  Cork, archdeacon of, 462

  Corneille, Pierre, 87

  country squires. See landowners

  Country Whigs, 173–74

  Covent Garden (London), 117

  Coverley, Sir Roger de (Spectator character), 241

  Cowley, Abraham, 82

  Cowper, Earl, 267

  Craik, Henry, 79, 106, 219, 415, 503n26

  Crane, R. S., 377–78

  Cromwell, Oliver, 128

  Crow, Nora, 365

  Cunningham, Patrick, 471

  Cupid, 179, 237

  currency, 348, 461; Swift’s likeness on, 411. See also halfpence

  Darwin, Charles, 274

  David, King (biblical), 396

  Davis, Herbert, 215, 228

  Day of Judgment, The (Swift), 455

  dean (clerical title): collection of income by, 260–61; duties of, 256; expenses of, 258–59; Swift’s many self-references as, 267

  Dean Swift’s Well (Market Hill), 441, 441

  Death and Daphne (Swift), 438–39

  Declaration of Rights (1689), 158

  Declaratory Act (1720), 344

  Decree for Concluding the Treaty between Dr. Swift and Mrs. Long (Swift), 233

  Defoe, Daniel, 115, 120, 174, 206, 370; naïve realism of, 361–62; personality of, 175; political underworld and, 174–75; Robinson Crusoe, 175, 252, 361–62; slave trade and, 252; on stock market, 340; Swift’s anonymous opposition to, 175; Swift’s Tale of a Tub and, 144–45

  deism, 151–52

  Delany, Patrick, 27, 70, 81, 206, 207, 280, 336, 345, 414, 428; on Carteret and Swift, 355–56; Harley knife story and, 203–4; marriage to Mary Pendarves of, 431; Stella-Swift relationship and, 307, 317–18; as subscriber to Swift’s collected writings, 461; on Swift’s cleanliness rituals, 69; Swift’s close friendship with, 280–81; on Swift’s dinners, 277–78; Swift’s final years and, 463, 467; on Swift-Sheridan bond, 282; on Swift’s preaching, 269, 270; on Swift’s religious sincerity, 147–48; Swift-Stella secret marriage rumor and, 317–18; Swift’s view of, 425; on Swift-Temple relationship, 44

  dementia, 144, 147, 368, 376, 460–61, 463–67, 469

  Democritus, 454

  denial (psychological), 140–41

  DePorte, Michael, 218, 220, 403

  Derry, deanery of, 103

  Descartes, René, 245

  Description of a City Shower, A (Swift), 123–24, 171–72, 184

  Description of the Morning, A (Swift), 120–23, 184

  Dickens, Charles, 24, 175

  Dictionary of the English Language, A. See Johnson Dictionary definitions

  Dingley, Rebecca, 42, 92, 180, 258, 304, 401, 404, 433–34; as co-recipient of Journal to Stella, 216–30; Dublin lodgings of, 273; Quilca visit of, 304; South Sea stock and, 339; Stella’s bequest to, 408; Stella’s relationship with, 107, 108, 109, 308; as subscriber to Swift’s collected writings, 461; Swift’s deanery and, 272–73; Swift’s dismissive poem about, 308; on Swift-Stella marriage rumor, 317

  Dingley and Brent (Swift), 308

  Directions for a Birthday Song (Swift), 398–99

  Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and the Commons in Athens and Rome with the Consequences They Had on Both Those States, A (Swift), 127, 128–30, 131, 158

  Dissenters, 131, 144–45; Bolingbroke vs. Oxford view of, 264; Church of Ireland tithes and, 75; curtailment of rights of, 208; Sacheverell sermon against, 192; Swift’s concern about, 151–53; Test Act ban from public office of, 150, 152, 155; as Whig support basis, 126; Whig toleration policy for, 194, 208, 210. See also Presbyterianism; Puritans

  divine-right doctrine, 192

  Dobbs, Arthur, 76

  Dobbs, Richard, 75–76

  Donoghue, Denis, 142

  Don Quixote (Cervantes), 193, 197

  Dorchester, Countess of, 65

  double entendres, 444, 445

  Down (Ireland), 75

  Drapier (ships), 414

  Drapier, M. B. (Swift pseudonym), 6, 348, 352, 356

  Drapier’s Head (Irish taverns), 414

  Drapier’s Hill (Swift land purchase), 439–40

  Drapier’s Letters (Swift), 348, 349–54, 356, 357, 371, 414

  Dr. Bentley’s Dissertation Examined (Christ Church College), 88

  Drogheda, Lord, 105

  Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope, While He Was Writing the Dunciad (Swift), 390

  Dryden, John, 5, 29, 82, 84–86, 85, 88–89, 136, 178; dedications by, 159; The Secular Masque, 92–93; translation of Ovid by, 184; translation of Virgil by, 121

  Dublin: cathedrals of, 72, 267–68 (see also St. Patrick’s Cathedral); Custom House, 21; filth and stench in, 446–47; Gulliver’s Travels and, 381; map of, 22; mentally ill in, 144; Protestants in, 18; Sheridan’s house in, 304–5; Stella in, 56, 107–12, 272–73, 316, 380; Swift annual birthday commemoration in, 354, 414, 422–23, 467; Swift as celebrity in, 411, 414, 422–23; Swift family’s settlement in, 12, 14, 59–60, 415–16; Swift’s association with, 124; Swift’s birth in, 9, 10–11, 58; Swift’s dislike of, 413; Swift’s meetings with Vanessa in, 324; Swift’s physical danger in, 287–88; Swift’s returns to, 71–75, 159; Swift’s social life in, 279–85; Trinity College in, 21, 22, 23–29; Vanessa’s town house in, 321, 329; Vanhomrigh family and, 231; War of the Two Kings and, 31; weavers and, 348, 415–16

  Dublin Castle, 102–3, 159

  Dublin Corporation, 414

  Dublin Journal, 422–23

  Dublin Philosophical Society, 24

  duels, 224–25

  Dunciad, The (Pope), 246, 387, 390, 392

  Dunlavin parish (Ireland), 101

  Dunton, John, 84

  Ehrenpreis, Irvin, 17, 28, 29, 78, 83, 112, 202, 212, 269, 343, 350, 353, 436, 460, 482n10, 484n55, 487n32, 507n40, 518n35; biography Swift: The Man, His Works, and the Age by, 4–6; on Bolingbroke-Oxford negotiations with Pretender, 288; on Bolingbroke’s lifestyle, 200; Freudian interpretation by, 5, 312; limitations of work of, 5–6, 53, 57; on poem to Biddy Floyd, 179; on Swift and Vanessa, 235, 240, 321, 324, 326, 331; on Swift pseudonym, 190; on Swift’s “anxious asexualism,” 235, 240; on Swift’s background, 11, 12; on Swift’s compulsive personality, 69; on Swift’s eulogy for Temple, 90; on Swift�
�s mother, 59; on Swift’s prayer for Stella, 406; on Swift’s reaction to mother’s death, 191; on Swift-Stella relationship, 312, 326; on Swift-Temple relationship, 44, 72; on Swift-Vanessa relationship, 235, 240; on symbolic paternity, 312; on Temple’s liaisons, 55; on threats to Swift, 457; on unconscious motivations, 312; on Vanessa’s emotional blackmail, 326

  Elias, A. C., Swift at Moor Park, 44, 45, 53, 71–72, 72–73, 82–83, 89, 90

  Elijah (prophet), 299

  Eliot, T. S., 420

  Elizabeth I, queen of England, 21

  Elphin, bishop of, 415

  empiricism, 142

  Empson, William, 136

  England: European geopolitics and, 127–28, 252; imperial expansion of, 4, 12, 32, 128, 170, 171, 192, 252, 340–45; John Bull symbol of, 243; as leading global power, 252; mercantilism and, 341–45, 422; slave trade and, 252; Swift’s abduction as infant to, 2, 12–14, 57, 59, 60, 453; Swift’s final move from, 266; Swift’s first move to, 15, 31, 32, 33; Swift’s friends in, 382–86; Swift’s mother’s move to, 15; Swift’s successive stays in (1726, 1727), 379–92, 395–410; Union with Scotland (1707) of, 161–63, 192, 262. See also London; other specific place-names

  English civil wars, 11, 16, 17, 75, 132, 150, 164; Whig and Tory origins in, 126

  English Humorist, The (Thackeray), 376

  English politics, 3–4, 124–30, 154–63, 191–214, 247–52, 253–66, 286–96; bureaucracy creation and, 170; Church of England and, 12, 125, 150, 152–53, 155, 208; endless wars and, 65, 66, 128, 167–71, 191; governing ministry and, 157–58, 172–74; Gulliver’s Travels allegory of, 370–72; Ireland and, 343–47; landowners and, 157, 208, 251; modern party system’s inception and, 4, 126 (see also Tories; Whigs); South Sea Bubble and, 338–41; Swift’s belief in balance of power in, 252; Swift’s conservatism and, 7; Swift’s influence and, 204–7, 208; Swift’s last causes and, 456–60; Walpole as first true prime minister and, 292. See also monarchy; Parliament

  English Privy Council, 351

  Ennis (Ireland), 345

  Epicureanism, 41–42, 44, 141

  Epistles of Philaris, 87–88, 89, 426

  Epistle to a Lady, Who Desired the Author to Make Verses on Her, in the Heroic Style (Swift), 454

  Epistle to Augustus Caesar (Horace), 195

  Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (Pope), 245

  Erasmus, Desiderius, In Praise of Folly, 134, 140, 141

  Ericke, Abigail, 59

  Ericke, James, 11

  Ericke, Thomas, 11, 59

  Essais (Montaigne), 81

  Essay on Criticism, An (Pope), 386

  Essay on Man (Pope), 383

  Essay upon the Ancient and Modern Learning (Temple), 43, 87

  established Church: Swift’s commitment to concept of, 74–75, 282. See also Anglican Church; Church of England; Church of Ireland

  Eucharist. See Holy Communion

  Eugene, prince of Savoy, 167

  Evans, bishop of Meath, 334–35

  Evelyn, John, 113, 123

  Evening Post (periodical), 246

  Examiner (periodical), 195, 202–3, 208, 209–11, 247, 312, 339, 417; derisive definition of Whigs by, 286

  Excellent New Panegyric on Skinnibonia, An (Swift), 437–38, 439

  excrement, 120, 365, 369, 444, 445, 446–47, 449–50; sex linked with, 452, 453

  Fabricant, Carole, 302, 511n10

  Farnham (England), 37, 107

  Faulkner, George, 19–20, 399, 437, 460; publication of Swift’s collected works by, 359, 359, 461, 462; Swift bust and, 471; on Swift’s appearance, 25; on Swift’s dementia, 466–67

  Fielding, Henry, 119, 134, 444, 457; The History of Tom Jones, 19, 75, 307

  “Fifteen, the” (1715). See Jacobite Rising

  Filby (baker), 222

  finance: speculation and, 170–71, 252, 338–41, 384; war funding and, 169–71, 251, 252, 339. See also stock exchange

  Finnegans Wake (Joyce), 45

  First Fruits and Twentieth Parts, Swift remission campaign, 154, 155, 159, 163, 171, 175, 190, 195–96, 267, 414

  Fleet Ditch (London), 120

  Flower, William, 80

  Floyd, Biddy, 179

  Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de, 492n23

  Ford, Charles, 180, 274, 283, 333, 334, 338, 347, 357, 378, 425, 441; Stella-Swift relationship and, 307–8; Woodpark country house of, 299

  Forster, John, 24

  Fountaine, Sir Andrew, 194, 220–21, 234

  France, 31, 39, 64, 66, 87, 127, 170, 171, 201, 208; Académie Française of, 212; Bolingbroke’s flight to, 288, 291; Bolingbroke’s pension from, 384; “moderns vs. ancients” quarrel and, 87; peace negotiations and, 246, 249; Pretender’s return to, 289; romantic love conception and, 237. See also War of the Spanish Succession

  Frankenstein (fictional), 372

  Freeport, Sir Andrew (Spectator character), 241

  freethinkers, 151–52

  French Revolution, 127

  Freud, Sigmund, 5, 136, 452, 453; uncanny concept and, 3, 220

  Gadarene swine (biblical), 458

  Gaelic language, 281–82

  Gaiety Theatre (Dublin), 420

  Galway, Earl of, 103, 105

  gambling, 159

  Gargantua (Rabelais), 134

  Gaulstown (Rochfort country house), 299, 301–2

  Gay, John, 372, 384–86, 386, 388, 391, 397, 398; death of, 425–26; epitaphs for, 426; obesity of, 245; Scriblerus Club and, 245–46; Swift’s friendship with, 245, 384–85; Walpole satire by, 293; works of: The Beggar’s Opera, 185, 246, 293, 385–86; New Song of New Similes, 384; Trivia; or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London, 120, 245

  Gentleman’s Magazine, 53, 318

  George, Prince of Denmark (Queen Anne’s consort), 156, 182

  George I, king of Great Britain, 65, 125–26, 165, 202, 254, 343, 348, 461; accession to throne of, 264–65, 288; Atterbury trial and, 295, 296; death of, 396; mistress of, 291; Swift’s hatred of, 286; Whig sympathies of, 254, 262

  George II, king of Great Britain, 394, 396, 398

  George III, king of Great Britain, 63

  Georgics (Virgil), 123–24

  Geree, John, 52–53, 55, 56, 71, 111, 320; letter about Moor Park ménage by, 318; memories of Stella of, 52–53, 55, 227, 472; Swift’s stay in country house of, 263–65, 288, 289, 320

  Geree, John, the elder, 71

  Geree, Simon, 71

  Germaine, Lady Betty (née Elizabeth Berkeley), 102, 179, 397

  Gibbon, Edward, 19, 89

  Gibeonites (biblical), 347

  Giffard, Lady (née Martha Temple), 39, 40, 42, 50, 51, 55, 56, 92, 107, 180, 223, 255; brother’s death and, 89, 90, 91; on brother’s temper, 45; employment of Stella’s mother by, 222; Swift’s quarrel with, 222

  glebe, 97, 98

  Glendinning, Victoria: Jonathan Swift, 7, 52, 69; on Swift-Vanessa relationship, 235

  Glorious Revolution. See Revolution of 1688

  Glumdalclitch (fictional), 367–68, 368

  God, 149, 152, 455

  Godolphin, Lord, 157, 166, 172, 172, 210; accomplishments of, 192, 193; fall from power of, 191–93, 248

  Goodrich (Herefordshire), 16, 17, 380

  Gosford Castle, 441

  government securities, 169–71

  Grafton, Duke of, 30, 352

  Grand Alliance, 167

  Grattan, Henry, 353

  Grattan brothers, 279–80, 299

  Great Fire of London (1666), 113

  Greek gods, 179, 236, 237, 328

  Grierson, Constantia, 428

  Griffin, V. G., 472

  Grub Street, 134–35, 190, 387

  Guiscard, Marquis de, 201, 202, 203

  Gulliver, Lemuel (Swift pseudonym), 6, 15, 246, 380, 381, 395; characteristics of, 359–60; fighting rat, 364; portrait of, 359; tied down with rope, 3, 44, 360–61, 361

  Gulliver, Samuel, 380

  Gulliver on Dollymount Strand (fiberglass model), 3

  Gulliver’s Travels, 2, 3, 8, 14
, 24, 51, 119, 133, 346, 357–78; as allegory of current events, 254, 256, 370–72, 522nn31, 33; Atterbury trial reference in, 294–96; balance between realism and fantasy of, 360, 362–63; as children’s classic, 3, 369–70; Coleire’s story as germ idea for, 176; disorienting perspective changes in, 220; English publisher of, 379, 380–81, 389; expurgated versions of, 369; fantasy elements in, 185; four voyages of, 357–58; “hard” and “soft” schools of interpretation of, 522n46; illustrations of, 361, 363, 364, 364, 367, 368, 369, 372–73, 373; misanthropic foundation of, 377; originality of, 358; original title of, 380; on peerage, 157; political outlook of, 293; relative scale portrayed in, 363, 364–66; religious belief and, 151; restoration of cut passages from, 461; satire of, 293, 358, 370–72, 381; timelessness of, 472; time spent writing of, 357; tinnitus description in, 274; as universal classic, 3, 360, 369–70, 371; White’s sequel to, 178–79. See also Brobdingnagians; Houyhnhnms; Lagado flying island; Lilliputians

  Gunpowder Plot (1605), 192

  Guy Fawkes Day, 30, 192

  Gwynn, Eleanor, 30

  Gwynne, Francis, 205

  Habsburg Empire, 128, 167, 169, 252

  Hakluyt, Richard, 358

  halfpence, 348, 350–51, 354–56, 371, 522n31

  Halifax, Lord, 130, 157, 158, 172–73, 173, 194–95

  Hamilton, Duchess of, 224, 225

  Hamilton, Duke of, 224–25

  Hamilton, Richard, 40

  Hampstead (London), 114

  Hampton Court, 182

  Hanmer, Thomas, 264

  Hanover dynasty, 125–26, 254

  Harding, John, 352–53

  Harlequin (dog), 294–95

  Harley, Edward, 339

  Harley, Robert. See Oxford, first Earl of

  Harrietsham (England), 176

  Harris, Frances, 105

  Hart Hall (later Hereford College), 71

  Harvey, William, 87

  Hawkesworth, John, 317

  Helen of Troy, 140

  Henry VIII, king of England, 72, 151, 373

  Herbert, Sir Thomas, A Relation of Some Years Travaille, through Divers Parts of Asia and Africke, 358

  Hereford Cathedral, 380

  Hill, Geoffrey, 446, 451

  Hints towards an Essay on Conversation (Swift), 433

  Hirsch, E. D., 481n10

  History of John Bull, The (Arbuthnot), 227, 243

  History of the Four Last Years of the Queen, A (Swift), 261

  Hoare, William, portrait of Pope, 389

  Hobbes, Thomas, 491n4; Leviathan, 132–33