Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric. In 1713, he became the dean of...
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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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presenter Jonathan Stedall (1938–2022), English television producer and documentary filmmaker Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Trott...
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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)
Ships, is a 1726 prose satire by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift. The novel satirises human nature and the imaginary "travellers' tales"...
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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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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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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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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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given name. It was invented by the Anglo-Irish writer Jonathan Swift for Esther Vanhomrigh, whom Swift had met in 1708 and whom he tutored. The name was created...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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glossaries". Björn Sundmark notes that Tolkien was following authors like Jonathan Swift in his use of maps in his fiction. Will Sherwood, writing in Journal...
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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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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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comparison to Jonathan Swift, stating, "A more common strategy is to read SCUM as an instance of political fiction or parody in the vein of Jonathan Swift." Writing...
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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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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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and romance in his novels is credited with influencing the works of Jonathan Swift, Edgar Allan Poe and probably Voltaire. Both Pierre Corneille and Molière...
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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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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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