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Appendix E - Swift’s Moor Park Reading List

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2021

Jonathan Swift
Edited by
Marcus Walsh
Marcus Walsh
Affiliation:
University of Liverpool
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Summary

While he was at Moor park, he kept an Acct one Year of the Books he read in the following manner—

From Jan: 7.1696/7

Lord Herbert's Harry 8. fol

Sleidan's Comment: abstracted fol

Council of Trent abstr: fol

Virgil, bis

Horace, 9. volumes

Sr W. Temple's Memoirs

—Introduction

Camden's Elisabeth

Prince Arthur

Histoire de Chypre

Voyage de Syam

Voiture

Memoires de Maurier

Lucius Florus, ter

Collier's Essays 2 volumes

Count Gabalis

Sr John Davis of the Soul

Conformit´e de Religion &c

Dialogues de Morts, 2 Vol:

Lucretius, ter

Histoire de Mr Constance

Histoire d’Æthiopie

Histoire de Cotes de &c

Diodorus Siculus, abstr: f◦

Cyprian & Irenæus abstr: f◦

Voyage de Maroc &c

Ælian, Ist Vol:

Homer, Iliad & Odyss.

Cicero's Epistles

Bernier's Grand Mogol 2 Vol:

Burnet's Hist: of Reform: f◦

Petronius Arbiter

Oevres Mel´ees 5 Vol:

From Jan: 7th 1697/8

Thucydides by Hobbes fol abstracted

Theophrasti Characteres.

Vossius de Sybillinis

No farther Acct remains of his Studys at this time.

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A Tale of a Tub and Other Works , pp. 271 - 274
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010

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