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What does your Lordship think of the words drudg'd, disturb'd, rebuk'd, fledg'd, and a thousand others? In a contribution to the
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Tatler (No. 230) he ridicules the use of _'um_ for _them_, and a number of slang Footnote: phrases, among which is _mob_.
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The war, he says,
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_Speculations, operations, preliminaries, ambassadors, pallisadoes, communication, circumvallation, battalions_, are the instances he gives, and all are now familiar. No man, or body of men, can dam the stream of language. Dryden is rather fond of _'em_ for _them_, but uses it rarely in his prose. Swift himself prefers _'tis_ to _it is_, as does Emerson still. In what Swift says of the poets, he may be fairly suspected of glancing at Dryden, who was his kinsman, and whose prefaces and translation of Virgil he ridicules in the
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Tale of a Tub. Dryden is reported to have said of him,
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Cousin Swift is no poet.