Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer and satirist who became the Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, and hence...
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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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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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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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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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critical response. The book's admirers have compared it to the satires of Jonathan Swift and the religious works of Dante Aligheri and Hieronymous Bosch. Its...
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is a flying island described in the 1726 book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. It is about 4½ miles (7¼ km) in diameter, with an adamantine base,...
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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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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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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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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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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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A Modest Proposal (category Essays by Jonathan Swift)
satirical essay written and published 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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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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Shrine Into a Morgue". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 December 2015. Jonathan Swift (1726). "Part III. A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib...
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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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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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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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Machine Jonathan Swift. "Writings on Religion and the Church, Vol. I. by Jonathan Swift: Ch. 14: Concerning that Universal Hatred". Jonathan Swift, Prose...
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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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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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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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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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this office has existed since 1219. The most famous office holder was Jonathan Swift. Some believe it was intended that St Patrick's, a secular (diocesan...
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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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Jonathan Swift: his life and his world. New Haven CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300205411. "Vanessa and her correspondence with Jonathan Swift"...
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Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods), through Blaise Pascal and Jonathan Swift, up to modern statements with their iconic simians and typewriters....
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December 2007. Retrieved 24 November 2007. Swift, Jonathan (29 October 2023). "The Select Works of Jonathan Swift". p. 27. "Classic Literature". Classiclit...
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Richard Steele's comedy The Tender Husband achieved some success. 1704: Jonathan Swift (Irish satirist) published A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books...
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