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INDEX.
Delusion. The advantage of objects being conveyed to us by it, ii. 171.
Demosthenes. Upon what he laid the greatest strength of his oratory, v. 93. Greatly excelled Tully as an orator, 94.
Dennis (Mr. John). A Narrative of his deplorable Frenzy, xvii. 308. His Invitation to Steele, vii. 133. His apprehension of being seized by the French, and the occasion of it, x. 243.
Desire and Possession. A poem, vii. 368.
Devotion. What the sincerest part of it, v. 460.
Dialogue. The best method of inculcating any part of knowledge, viii. 259.
Diaper (Mr.) Writes some sea eclogues, or poems of mermen, xv. 283. Presented by Dr. Swift to lord Bolingbroke, with a new poem, 349. Receives twenty guineas from that lord, by Dr. Swift, when lying sick in a nasty garret, 382.
Dignity. Why necessary to old Men, x. 245.
Digressions. One concerning criticks, ii. 101. One in the modern kind, 128. Some authors enclose them in one another like a nest of boxes, 129. One in praise of digressions, 146. The commonwealth of learning chiefly obliged to the great modern improvement of them, ibid. A digression concerning the original use and improvement of madness in a commonwealth, 161. One on war, 282.
Diligence. To be doubly diligent to those who neglect us, why the cruellest revenge, xiii. 93.
Dingley (Mrs. Rebecca). New Year's Gift for her, vii. 267. Dingley and Brent, a song, 268. Her Birthday, 357. On her Lapdog's Collar, 359. The dean's mode of visiting her, xix. 131. Annuity he allowed her, 133. Her character, by Dr. Swift, xiii. 319.
Discretion. The great use of this talent, v. 111. Most serviceable to the clergy 113. The end of good breeding wholly perverted by the want of it, v. 185.
Diseases. The causes of them, vi. 299. The general method used by the physicians in the cure of them, ibid. A specifick for the cure of those caused by repletion, 311.
Disney