Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for...
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Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), was an Anglo-Irish satirist and cleric. Jonathan Swift may also refer to: Jonathan Swift (British Army officer) Jonathan Swift...
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Sir Jonathan Mark Swift (born 11 September 1964) is a British High Court judge. Swift was born in Rochford, England and educated at Southend High School...
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Grisette (person) (section Jonathan Swift)
sold love as well as flowers on the streets of New Orleans. In 1730, Jonathan Swift was already using "grisette" in English to signify qualities of both...
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List of Marvel Comics characters: B (redirect from Blue Streak (Jonathan Swift))
who broke Blue Streak's neck and apparently killed him. Blue Streak (Jonathan Swift) first appeared during the height of the "Civil War" storyline. He is...
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Look up Swift, swift, or SWIFT in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Swift or SWIFT most commonly refers to: SWIFT, an international organization facilitating...
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18th century satirist Jonathan Swift. He was born January 16, 1924, in Washington Heights, Manhattan, and raised in Brooklyn. Swift graduated from the High...
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Gulliver's Travels (category Works by Jonathan Swift)
writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best-known full-length...
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is a flying island described in the 1726 book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. It is about 4+1⁄2 miles (7 kilometres) in diameter, with an adamantine...
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The mine was supposedly discovered in 1760 by an Englishman named Jonathan Swift. The uncertainty of its location is part of the folklore of its existence...
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Jonathan Swift, OBE is a senior British Army officer. He served as General Officer Commanding, Regional Command from July 2022 to August 2023. Swift was...
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HSC Cecilia Payne (redirect from HSC Jonathan Swift)
Cecilia Payne. Between 1999 and 2018 she was operated by Irish Ferries as Jonathan Swift. Cecilia Payne was constructed by Austal Ships in Henderson, Australia...
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Jonathan Swift, as Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, produced many sermons during his tenure from 1713 to 1745. Although Swift is better known...
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of Athens, Molière's play The Misanthrope, and Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. Misanthropy is closely related to but not identical to philosophical...
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Travels written by Jonathan Swift. Their behaviour and character representation is meant to comment on the state of Europe from Swift's point of view. The...
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Lilliput and Blefuscu (section Post-Swift descriptions)
that appear in the first part of the 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. The two islands are neighbours in the South Indian Ocean, separated...
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Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. A subject of widespread public interest with a vast fanbase, she has influenced...
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endian has its origin in the writings of 18th century Anglo-Irish writer Jonathan Swift. In the 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels, he portrays the conflict between...
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Esther Johnson (section Friendship with Swift)
Englishwoman known to have been a close friend of Jonathan Swift, known as "Stella". Whether or not she and Swift were secretly married, and if so why the marriage...
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A Modest Proposal (category Essays by Jonathan Swift)
written and published anonymously by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift in 1729. The essay suggests that poor people in Ireland could ease their...
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Wilde, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, W. Somerset Maugham, and Jonathan Swift. "Call a spade a spade" or "call a spade a shovel" are both forms of...
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modern times. Since then, famous polemicists have included satirist Jonathan Swift, Italian physicist and mathematician Galileo, French Enlightenment writer...
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television presenter Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Trott (born 1981), South African-born English cricketer Jonathan Van-Tam (born 1964)...
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One (and slightly on Part Two) of the 1726 novel of the same name by Jonathan Swift, though the film takes place in the modern day and contains references...
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English-language traditions, such as Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin, Dáibhí Ó Bruadair, Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Máirtín Ó Cadhain...
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death was a release from a life of ill-health and tragedy; he wrote to Jonathan Swift, "I believe sleep was never more welcome to a weary traveller than death...
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December 10, 2015. Jonathan J. Szwec (2011). "Satire in 18th Century British Society: Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock and Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal"...
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1935 while interpreting the writings of Jonathan Swift. Breton's preference was to identify some of Swift's writings as a subgenre of comedy and satire...
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Esther Vanhomrigh (category Jonathan Swift)
correspondent of Jonathan Swift. Swift's letters to her were published after her death. Her fictional name "Vanessa" was created by Swift by taking Van from...
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for the leader of the government, usually the head of the Treasury. Jonathan Swift, for example, wrote that in 1713 there had been "those who are now commonly...
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