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    Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet...
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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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    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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    is a flying island described in the 1726 book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. It is about 4½ Miles (ca. 7¼ km) in diameter, with an adamantine base...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    modern times. Since then, famous polemicists have included satirist Jonathan Swift, Italian physicist and mathematician Galileo, French theologian Jean...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    narrator of Gulliver's Travels, a novel written by Jonathan Swift, first published in 1726. According to Swift's novel, Gulliver was born in Nottinghamshire...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    He was a quarrelsome individual, and his list of enemies included Jonathan Swift, the publisher George Faulkner and Josiah Hort, Bishop of Kilmore and...
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    has written a short children's adaptation of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, and a children's story called The Broken Mirror. Both titles are published...
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