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[[File:Jonathan swift.jpg|thumb|right|Proper [[words]] in proper places, make the true definition of a [[style]].]]
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'''[[w:Jonathan Swift|Jonathan Swift]]''' ([[30 November]] [[1667]] – [[19 October]] [[1745]]) was an Irish writer and satirist
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Swift
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the foremost prose satirist in the English language,
although he is
also well known for his poetry and essays.
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'''[[w:Jonathan Swift|Jonathan Swift]]''' ([[30 November]] [[1667]] – [[19 October]] [[1745]]) was an Irish writer and satirist
,
acclaimed
as
the foremost prose satirist in the English language,
but
also well known for his poetry and essays.
== Quotes ==
== Quotes ==
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* There's two words to that bargain.
* There's two words to that bargain.
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== Quotes about Swift ==
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* Swift has a higher reputation than he deserves. His excellence is strong sense; for his humour, though very well, is not remarkably good. I doubt whether The Tale of a Tub be his; for he never owned it, and it is much above his worldly manner.
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** [[Samuel Johnson]], in [[James Boswell]], ''Life of Johnson'' (1791)
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* [...] giant and great as this Dean is, I say we should hoot him. Some of this audience mayn't have read the last part of Gulliver, and to such I would recall the advice of the venerable Mr. Punch to persons about to marry, and say, 'Don't'. When Gulliver first lands among the Yahoos, the naked howling wretches clamber up trees and assault him, and he describes himself as 'almost stifled with the filth which fell about him.' The reader of the fourth part of ''Gulliver's Travels'' is like the hero himself in this instance. It is Yahoo language: a monster gibbering shrieks, and gnashing imprecations against mankind -- tearing down all shreds of modesty, past all sense of manliness and shame; filthy in word, filthy in thought, furious, raging, obscene.
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** [[William Makepeace Thackeray]], ''The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century'' (1853)
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* As fierce a beak and talon as ever struck -- as strong a wing as ever beat, belong to Swift. [...] One can gaze, and not without awe and pity, at the lonely eagle chained behind the bars [...] An immense genius: an awful downfall and ruin. So great a man he seems to me, that thinking of him is like thinking of an empire falling.
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** [[William Makepeace Thackeray]], ''The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century'' (1853)
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== Quotes about Swift ==
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* Swift has a higher reputation than he deserves. His excellence is strong sense; for his humour, though very well, is not remarkably good. I doubt whether The Tale of a Tub be his; for he never owned it, and it is much above his worldly manner.
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** [[Samuel Johnson]], in [[James Boswell]], ''Life of Johnson'' (1791)
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* [...] giant and great as this Dean is, I say we should hoot him. Some of this audience mayn't have read the last part of Gulliver, and to such I would recall the advice of the venerable Mr. Punch to persons about to marry, and say, 'Don't'. When Gulliver first lands among the Yahoos, the naked howling wretches clamber up trees and assault him, and he describes himself as 'almost stifled with the filth which fell about him.' The reader of the fourth part of ''Gulliver's Travels'' is like the hero himself in this instance. It is Yahoo language: a monster gibbering shrieks, and gnashing imprecations against mankind -- tearing down all shreds of modesty, past all sense of manliness and shame; filthy in word, filthy in thought, furious, raging, obscene.
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** [[William Makepeace Thackeray]], ''The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century'' (1853)
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* As fierce a beak and talon as ever struck -- as strong a wing as ever beat, belong to Swift. [...] One can gaze, and not without awe and pity, at the lonely eagle chained behind the bars [...] An immense genius: an awful downfall and ruin. So great a man he seems to me, that thinking of him is like thinking of an empire falling.
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** [[William Makepeace Thackeray]], ''The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century'' (1853)
==External links==
==External links==