Excerpt from The Spirit of Place, and Other Essays Swift is most charming when he is feigning to complain of his task Here is such a stir and bustle with this little MD of ours I must be writing every night; 0 Lord, 0 Lord I must go write idle things, and twittle twattle. These saucy jades take up so much of my time with writing to them in the morn ing. Is it not a stealthy wrong done upon Mrs. Dingley that She should be stripped of all these ornaments to her name and memory? When Swift tells a woman in a letter that there he is writing in bed, like a tiger, she should go gay in the eyes of all generations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.