| 单词 | Dean Swift |
| 例句 | So yup, pretty much all covered by Dean Swift there back in the 1730s, right down to Theresa May’s strained throat. With Theresa’s ‘turd’ deal flushed away, pray for an EU invasion | Marina Hyde 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Robinson Cruso still survives, hale and hearty, at King’s Lynn, and Dean Swift is far from dead, as the West Riding Directory proves. Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature 2012-03-29T02:00:13.900Z Dean Swift’s satire against scepticism was fiercely powerful; but his onslaughts against Roman Catholics and Presbyterians made far more sceptics than his other writings had made churchmen. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z It is used by Dean Swift in this sense; but in a way that shows that it was no new phrase in those days. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 109, November 29, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-03-25T02:00:04.460Z You may fetch Friar John and sweet Dean Swift and the amiable parson Sterne, and any other godly and devout and spiritual ministers you can lay hold of; but don’t bring more than a pleiad.” Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z Ah! old Dean Swift humanized; few men have done more to explode error, shame bigotry, and expose abuses, than thou! Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z Dean Swift's humor would have been irresistible, if it had only been good humor. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z His complexion had the same muddy tinge which distinguished Dean Swift's, and his hair lay in ragged masses of jet black about his square brows, unrestrained by bow or ribbon. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z His exposure to, and interest in, English were reinforced by his godfather, Dean Swift, who was long an intimate of the elder Sheridan. A Discourse Being Introductory to his Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language (1759) 2012-01-01T03:00:09.283Z —J. H. S. will find this question raised in the The closing Years of Dean Swift's Life, by W. R. Wilde, M.R.I.A.:— Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 93, August 9, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-12-20T03:00:34.177Z Greater men than Dean Swift may have lived. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z If the same had been told by the patrician Palmerston, instead of the plebeian Lincoln, they would not have lacked the "Attic salt," but would have rivaled Dean Swift or Sidney Smith. Sketch of the life of Abraham Lincoln 2011-10-24T02:00:19.173Z Dean Swift, whose youth was nourished in that living age, passed into the era of dismal disputes, where he found the churches "dormitories of the living as well as of the dead." The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z She became one of the leading Tory pamphleteers, political editors, and literary hacks in London, employed for years and respected in an odd way by such people as Richard Steele and Dean Swift. The Female Wits 2011-09-28T02:00:23.247Z In the churchyard is the well known ludicrous epitaph, written by Dean Swift, in memory of "Dickey Pearce, the Earl of Suffolk's fool." Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. 2011-09-26T02:00:29.140Z Intellectually and morally, physically and religiously, Dean Swift was a mass of contradictions. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z I hope it will be granted that I have acquitted myself in this delicate investigation with all possible decorum, and that Dean Swift himself could not have done better. Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith 2011-09-09T02:00:59.237Z Dean Swift had warned the clergy that if they began to reason with objectors to the creeds they would awaken skepticism. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z A strange, close friendship knit him to Dean Swift, who had seemed incapable of rallying this sensitive man's—or, indeed, any man's—affections. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z In fact, the confusion seems to me to arise from the vague phraseology which induces us to accept, virtually at least, the mental attitude of Dean Swift in Er the Pamphylian. Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II 2011-08-05T02:00:45.557Z Dean Swift says: "So many marriages prove unhappy because so many young women spend their time in making nets, not in making cages." Increasing Personal Efficiency 2011-07-31T02:00:10.480Z Faulkner Wells was born in 1936, four months after the death of her father, Dean Swift Faulkner, William Faulkner’s youngest brother, in a plane crash. Dean Faulkner Wells, William Faulkner?s niece, dies in Miss. hospital after stroke at age 75 2011-07-28T12:12:35Z ‘A chambermaid to a lady of my acquaintance,’ writes Dean Swift, ‘when talking with one of her fellow-servants, said: “I hear it is all over London already that I am going to leave my lady.”’ Crying for the Light, Vol. 3 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.900Z He tells the story related by Dean Swift of the old man whose barrel-shaped chest was fixed in spasm so full of air that the patient could not find room for the slightest additional breath. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z One of these was the Earl of Berkeley, whose dealings with Dean Swift, when that eccentric cleric was seeking a high appointment, have become historic. The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z Dean Swift assailed the poor poet as follows:— “The thresher Duck could o’er the Queen prevail; The proverb says ‘No fence against a flail.’ Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z It was Dean Swift's custom to read a certain chapter of Job on his birthday, wherein the day is cursed that a man-child was born. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z A Dublin lady took a world of trouble to provide a variety of dishes, and have all cooked with great skill, for an entertainment she was to give in honour of Dean Swift. How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage 2011-03-11T03:00:13.410Z What a large lacuna would be created in English literature by the removal from it of the work of such men as Dean Swift, Goldsmith, Burke, Sheridan, and Moore! Makers of Modern Medicine 2011-03-05T03:00:29.580Z Dean Swift's satire was stinging everybody, irrespective of position or class. The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z "And for my accomplishment of saying smart things in a polite way, I am entirely obliged to you and Dean Swift," said Cleve, mischievously. The Tenants of Malory Volume 2 of 3 2011-03-04T03:00:56.067Z “Dean Swift,” says Arbuthnot, “keeps up his noble spirit; and, though like a man knocked down, you may behold him still with a stern countenance, and aiming a blow at his adversaries.” The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z According to Dean Swift, "the reason why so few marriages are happy is because young women spend their time in making nets, not in making cages." How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage 2011-03-11T03:00:13.410Z Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland to the time of Dean Swift. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 1 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:36.047Z Large and thick paper copy, presented by the author to Dean Swift, with the latter's autograph and memoranda. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:34.387Z A collection of proof sheets with editorial corrections, additions &c. in the handwriting of Sir Walter Scott and Henry Weber, Letters of Dean Swift &c. 8vo, two volumes, half green morocco, uncut edges. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 3 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:32.387Z Johnson’s advice to Boswell, “above all things to clear his mind of cant,” was perhaps never better illustrated than in the case of Dean Swift. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z Dean Swift once had a house there, the site of which is still indicated. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z Dean Swift, in a letter dated London, December, 1703, tells a friend, that the occasional Conformity Bill, intended to nullify the Toleration Act, was then the subject of everybody's conversation. London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. 2011-01-28T03:00:22.900Z Dean Swift, full of wit and penury, writing from his London lodging to Stella in her comfortable Irish home, breaks into frequent outbursts at the scantiness of his comforts. A Cursory History of Swearing "I thought my master a wise man; but this man makes my master a fool," says the housemaid in Dean Swift; and it is thus that the emmet Blazer befools you, turn where you may. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 Whenever he did, especially if he belonged to the class mentioned by Dean Swift, then he surely made his religion the principal reason for his opposition. The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time Such a world as that dwelt in the imagination of Dean Swift—I never imagined that it could exist here and now. The Great Discovery Dean Swift, the greatest English satirist, may be taken up first, his life, his work and his influence. The Complete Club Book for Women Including Subjects, Material and References for Study Programs; together with a Constitution and By-Laws; Rules of Order; Instructions how to make a Year Book; Suggestions for Practical Community Work; a Resume of what Some Clubs are Doing, etc., etc. From the time of Dean Swift downwards, it has mostly suffered from being lamentably unfashionable. A Cursory History of Swearing Dean Swift's housemaid was one of this class, who pinned a dish-clout to the tail of Dr Sheridan, and pointed him out as an object of ridicule to all the servants. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 Dean Swift seems to have been of a similar opinion. Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself Lunatics are maintained in St Patrick’s hospital, founded in 1745, pursuant to the will of Dean Swift, and conducted by governors appointed under the charter of incorporation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" This disappointment, aggravated as it was by certain lines written by Dean Swift, affected Ditton’s health to such a degree that he died in the following year, on the 15th of October 1715. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" Dean Swift says: "When a great genius appears in the world, the dunces are all in confederacy against him." History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia Curll republished the letters under the title of "Dean Swift's Literary Correspondence." The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition Blameless in life he must be: even the eighteenth century demanded that from candidates for English, if not, according to Dean Swift, for Irish sees. Studies in Contemporary Biography Six designs on wood for “Readings from Dean Swift His Tale of a Tub, with Variorum Notes, and a Supplement for the use of the Nineteenth Century,” by Quintus Flestrin Grildrig. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. Dean Swift might have related how Balzac wished to express his contempt for all the royalties of the earth. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 Among what you call the occasional, or black list, I have seen Memoirs of Dean Swift, Pope, &c.” Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Amongst the clergy, Dr. Burnet was, with the single exception of Dean Swift, the greatest Freethinker of whom we can boast, who held an influential position in the Church. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." Dean Swift, a sharp satirist, but a good friend of women, comments on the prevailing view. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle Dean Swift and Sir Walter Scott were both dull boys. The Curse of Education And Dean Swift had written this while he was in London two hundred years before, a great man among great men. In a Little Town There was a rumour, after Pope’s death, that he had left behind him a satirical “Life of Dean Swift.” Calamities and Quarrels of Authors But he did so in the spirit which led Dean Swift to found a lunatic asylum. The Red Hand of Ulster We ought to add, however, that this venomous jest is borrowed bodily from Dean Swift's treatment of the poor almanac-maker, Partridge. Benjamin Franklin She avoided company, and was always melancholy, save when Dean Swift was there, and then she seemed happy. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges In his distress he happened to think of Dean Swift. In a Little Town The word seems to be a corruption of Dean Swift's "Yahoo." An Old Sailor's Yarns A chapter on Medals and Coins contains attractive matter, particularly that portion which relates to the "Rosa Americana coins," connected as they are with the "Wood's half-pence," immortalized by Dean Swift. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 But so strange are the revolutions of this world that Dean Swift, who was then the detestation of the Irish rabble, lived to govern them with absolute sway. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History We quote a portion of a letter relating to his educational plans, from Dean Swift to Lord Carteret, Lieutenant of Ireland, dated Sept. The History of Dartmouth College According to Dean Swift's hero, the astronomers on the Flying Island of Laputa had found two tiny satellites to Mars, one of which revolved around the planet in ten hours. Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language It is an able argument, and as a keen piece of irony it is worthy the pen of a Dean Swift. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III But Dean Swift enjoyed him, and testified that "he talked very agreeably and with great spirit." William Penn It has been known at different times as "Dean Swift's Cottage" and "Stella's Cottage." Highways and Byways in Surrey She took the alphabet, entered literature, and drove out Dean Swift. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Facial beauty and physical prowess all made way for the kind of magnetism that Socrates, George Sand, Julius Cæsar, Henry VIII, Paganini, Emerson, Dean Swift or Richard Wagner possessed. Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression The remains of Dean Swift are buried here. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands Dean Swift affirms that a person given to contradiction is more fit for Bedlam than for conversation. Conversation What to Say and How to Say it Dean Swift, who lodged here, is perhaps one of the best-known names, and his friend Atterbury, who first had a house facing the Embankment, afterwards came and lived opposite to him. Chelsea The Fascination of London Fox was right: mob is not genuine English—teste Dean Swift! Notes and Queries, Number 213, November 26, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. Diary, from which his often-cited description of Dean Swift is taken, to be found? Notes and Queries, Number 211, November 12, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. But Rabelais is no Dean Swift�nor is there the remotest resemblance between them. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions They look like houses out of a story by Dean Swift. The Pools of Silence In the fable of the 'Degenerate Bees,' Gay takes the part of the Tory ministry,—Oxford, Bolingbroke, Dean Swift, and Mat. Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) It was Dean Swift who declared that collections of books made him melancholy, "where the best author is as much squeezed and as obscure as a porter at a coronation." Chimney-Pot Papers Dean Swift, with his merciless satire, drove them out of Ireland, and his majesty, having no use for them in England, sent them to his American colonies. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy We also hate Dean Swift, and upon what we think substantial arguments. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 The one name that looms large to us out of that time is that of Dean Swift, but then there were dozens just as great as he—so-said. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators The humor of Punch appealed to him, and the wit of Sterne and Dean Swift; but the funny column and the paragrapher’s niche of our newspapers he regarded as purely pathological phenomena. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic "These wrangling jars of Whig and Tory," says Dean Swift, "are stale and old as Troy-town story." A History of the Four Georges, Volume I Hence the epigram of Dean Swift— Some say that Signor Bononcini, Compared to Handel, is a ninny; Others aver that to him Handel Is scarcely fit to hold the candle. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 455 Volume 18, New Series, September 18, 1852 Dean Swift looked sardonic on Addison's face, And Johnson tipped Boswell a wink, Walter Scott and Jane Austen hobnobbed o'er a glass, And Goethe himself deigned to drink. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries But in his leisure the pressure is removed, his heart is free and judgment may for the time take a back seat—there was where Dean Swift picked his laurels. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators He added the interesting fact that, in spite of the saying nomen omen, both Dean Swift and Archdeacon Hare were slow composers. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 11, 1914 But Dean Swift did not deserve a wife, from the way in which he broke the heart of Jane Waring first, and Esther Johnson afterward, and last of all "Vanessa." The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony The word "Houyhnhnms" is the name given by Dean Swift to an imaginary race of horses endowed with reason. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9 Dean Swift nearly starved in a country parish where his more practical classmate Stafford became rich. Pushing to the Front Every one knows, or can guess, to what sort of animal Churton Collins compared Dean Swift, when the Dean was in certain moods. The Bibliotaph and Other People He spoke with ease and readiness, using a style somewhat resembling the crisp, clear sententiousness of Dean Swift. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 Just when this offensive vote of the House was the theme of general conversation, Dean Swift encountered the Earl of Mar at Lord Masham's. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Upon this subject I shall allow myself to quote the words of Delany, the friend of Dean Swift, one of the most animated and sensible of our sermon writers. Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew As Dean Swift observes, "we must carry money in the head, not in the heart." How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success He printed for Dean Swift, for Pope, Matthew Prior, and Dr. King, and was also the printer of nearly all the writings of the versatile and unhappy Mrs. Manley. A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 This being shown to Dean Swift, he said, with a sarcastic smile, "The receiver is as bad as the thief." The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings That remark of Dean Swift's, "I admire Handel—principally because he conceals his petticoat peccadilloes with such perfection," does not go. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians He had among his friends some of the most eminent writers of his day, such as Addison, Pope, Dean Swift and others. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Dean Swift's Gulliver would have said the latter. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques During his residence at his living in the county of Meath, before he was advanced to the deanery of St Patrick's, Dean Swift was daily shaved by the village barber, who gained his esteem. At the Sign of the Barber's Pole Studies In Hirsute History Dean Swift was one day in company, when the conversation fell upon the antiquity of the family. The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings Dean Swift replies with a knowing smirk, which is the nearest approach to a laugh in which he ever indulged. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians Do you know what Dean Swift says a sleigh-ride is like? The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Dean Swift, among other eccentricities, determined upon having a feast once a year, in imitation of the Saturnalia in ancient Rome. Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell The right man can make anything interesting, just as Dean Swift could write an entrancing essay with the broomstick as a central theme. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists The way in which good English becomes slang is well illustrated by an essay of the great English writer Dean Swift, in the famous paper called "The Tatler," in 1710. Stories That Words Tell Us Mitford, Mary Russell, ii, 26; v, 59; life of Dean Swift by, i, 143. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians Yet Lawrence was just as much himself when he was telling me stories of Dean Swift that were full of malice and brutality and orgiac ecstasy. Irish Plays and Playwrights At the head of this distinguished order stood the illustrious Father O'Leary, the Catholic Dean Swift of his time, the champion of peace, and the eloquent preacher of Christian charity. Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell But, uncle," said Charlie Bolton, "couldn't you put off Sunday as Dean Swift, or somebody or other, put off the eclipse? Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside Dean Swift quotes Sir Philip Sidney as saying that the "chief life of modern versifying consists in rhyme." The Last Harvest I admire the close of a letter Lord Bolingbroke writes to Dean Swift:—“Adieu dear Swift! with all thy faults I love thee entirely: make an effort to love me with all mine!” The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham It was Dean Swift's belief that the common fluency of speech in many men and most women was due to scarcity of matter and scarcity of words. Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Persons Who Read, Write, And Speak English Dean Swift once invited to dinner several of the first noblemen and gentlemen in Dublin. Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell Julia, apparently, had not read him—what reading she had done seemed to be more in the direction of Gil Blas, and Dean Swift, and other kindred things in different languages. The Good Comrade There is a similar false note in such a careful writer as Dean Swift. The Last Harvest Dean Swift defined manners as the art of putting at ease the people with whom we converse. Talks on Talking He accepted adoration, as did Dean Swift, as a right. The Great German Composers Dean Swift is said to have jocularly remarked, that he never preached but twice in his life, and then they were not sermons, but pamphlets. Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell Her physician wrote to Dean Swift, "I believe sleep was never more welcome to a weary traveler than death was to her." The Leading Facts of English History Dean Swift was indeed a misanthrope by theory, however he may have made exception to private life. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World This was Sir George's telling of it: Dean Swift, in a modest phaeton, happened to be jogging past Gorey, the residence of Ram. The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B. Dean Swift, in his Project for the Advancement of Religion, speaks of curates in the most contemptuous terms. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century You have perhaps heard the famous verse of Dean Swift: "So naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller that upon them prey And these have smaller still to bite 'em And so proceed ad infinitum." Outdoor Sports and Games During the first part of the eighteenth century the destitution of the people was so great that Dean Swift, in bitter mockery of the government's neglect, published what he called his "Modest Proposal." The Leading Facts of English History Now, these two satellites were not discovered really until August 16th, 1877, but Dean Swift's book appeared it 1726, more than one hundred and fifty years before! St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, May, 1878, No. 7. Scribner's Illustrated An ancestor, Ram by name, of his step-father had figured in a somewhat sudden meeting with Dean Swift. The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B. Dean Swift, it is said, has the credit of having first aroused public attention to this want. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century It is notable that Charles had invited Dean Swift to visit his Court, when Swift was allied with Bolingbroke and Oxford. A Short History of Scotland Ah! when Dean Swift was quick, how he enhanc'd The horse!—and humbled biped man like Plato! The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood What a subject for the same play of ingenuity would be Dean Swift! Reason and Faith; Their Claims and Conflicts From The Edinburgh Review, October 1849, Volume 90, No. CLXXXII. (Pages 293-356) Dean Swift's barber one day told him that he had taken a public-house. The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection Of course eccentricities which Dean Swift allowed himself must not be taken as examples of what others ventured upon. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century According to Dean Swift, Papists counted no more in politics than the women and children. The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times Dean Swift said a lie "was too good to be lavished about." The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him Dean Swift's famous question to the man carrying the hare, "Pray, sir, is that your own hare or a wig?" is perfect in its way. The Function of the Poet and Other Essays Dean Swift probably announced his arrival to his brother of Chester as one king announces his approach to another king. From John O'Groats to Land's End He was a member of the Irish Parliament, and held by Dean Swift in utter abomination. The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 "Your servant," remarked Mrs. Wolston, "has been taking lessons from Dean Swift as well as yourself, Willis." Willis the Pilot Dean Swift once came to himself, after a dream, laughing thus hideously at the following conceit: “I told Apronia to be very careful especially about the legs.” In the Wrong Paradise Dean Swift was at once the ablest and the bitterest of these. With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne It was to Dawport, or Darport, that Dean Swift usually sailed from Dublin at the beginning of the eighteenth century for his frequent visits to his brother wits, Addison and Steele. From John O'Groats to Land's End Among the notable guests was Dean Swift, whose astonishment at the magnitude of the place, with the lights in hundreds of windows at night, is mentioned by Dr. Sheridan. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 What more charming to a young and ardent mind than the loves of Dante and Beatrix, of Eleonora and Tasso, of Petrarch and Laura, of Abelard and Heloise, or of Dean Swift and Stella? Willis the Pilot "No, no," quoth the Primate, "if causes we sift, This mischief arises from witty Dean Swift." The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 "In journeys he outrides the post," Dean Swift wrote of him, and the Dean goes on to say, So wonderful his expedition, When you have not the least suspicion, He's with you like an apparition. With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne It is a far cry from the battle of Brunanburch to Dean Swift, but the thought of Anlaf took us back to Ireland, and Ireland and Chester were closely connected in trade for many centuries. From John O'Groats to Land's End Note on Herodotus, by Dean Swift, 350. —— on Cold Harbour, 60. Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 1, November, 1849-May, 1850 A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. If there be any man in English history whom such a summary of traits as this recalls, it is Dean Swift. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 Our ancestors thought and acted sometimes on premises that seem to us frightfully flimsy—they tried, as Dean Swift painted them in his immortal satire, to get sunbeams from cucumbers. A Librarian's Open Shelf To a man, it is as absurd to imitate the manner of Dean Swift in writing as it would be to imitate the manner of Dr. Johnson in eating. Emerson and Other Essays I have been reading Dean Swift's life, and 'Gulliver's P. 199Travels' again. The Life of John Ruskin The inclosed unpublished note of Dean Swift will, I hope, be deemed worthy of a place in your columns. Notes and Queries, Number 22, March 30, 1850 To Dean Swift must be attributed the change in the national weapon and the initiation of a leadership of resistance within the law, which has lasted into modern times. The Glories of Ireland With regard to Dean Swift's poetical character, the reader will take the following sketch of it in the words of Lord Orrery. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. In the party who, amid such strange surroundings, read and listened to Dean Swift's writings was a young man named Alexander Neely. The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 With the exception of Gulliver's Travels, very little that Dean Swift wrote is now read by anyone but students. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 That celebrated, though indelicate divine, Dean Swift, was, like Alexander Pope, deeply interested in the designing of this park. A Cotswold Village Dean Swift was the mightiest journalist that ever stirred the sluggish soul of humanity. The Glories of Ireland He enjoyed a paternal estate in that county, which is still in possession of his great-grandson, Dean Swift, Esq; He died in the year 1658, leaving five sons, Godwin, Thomas, Dryden, Jonathan, and Adam. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. "Only a woman's hair," wrote Dean Swift on a certain packet hidden away in his desk. M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." Gulliver's Travels was published in 1726 and without any allusion to the real author, though many knew that the work must have come from the pen of Dean Swift. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 As Dean Swift observes, “we must carry money in the head, not in the heart.” Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance A Dean Swift sees one race of people smaller, and another race of people larger than the race of people that live down his own streets. Dreams We there discern the greatness and weakness of Dean Swift; we discover the patriot, the genius, and the humourist; the peevish master, the ambitious statesman, the implacable enemy, and the warm friend. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. There is no novelty in this; it is only a second edition of Dean Swift's "new-fashioned way of being witty," which, in his fashionable day, was called "a bite." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 I admire the close of a letter Lord Bolingbroke writes to Dean Swift:—"Adieu, dear Swift! with all thy faults I love thee entirely: make an effort to love me with all mine!" The Letters of Robert Burns Dean Swift was now in England, and took a deep interest in the success of this undertaking, recommending it in coffee-houses, and introducing the subject and Pope's name to the leading Tories. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Pope, without any knowledge of him but from his London, recommended him to Earl Gower, who endeavoured to procure for him a degree from Dublin, by the following letter to a friend of Dean Swift: Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 Dean Swift sometimes wrote to Mr. Pope on the topic of changing his religion, and once humorously offered him twenty pounds for that purpose. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. But would Dean Swift have put the daily record of his life upon paper for another than Stella to peruse? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 The first number contains a characteristic tribute to Dean Swift, whose death had occurred 'a few days since.' Henry Fielding: a Memoir Have you, who love wit, never read Dean Swift's famous description of the deathless people in Gulliver? The Virginians Progress, as Dean Swift observed, may be "too fast for endurance." Steam, Steel and Electricity Though there is irony to be found in the Bible, I do not think that fierce irony like that which might do for the like of Dean Swift, is the intention of the Preacher. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes He was the son of Dr. Thomas Sheridan, a profound scholar and eminent schoolmaster, intimately connected with Dean Swift and other illustrious writers in the reign of Queen Anne. Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 Women of good repute do not gamble, and talk modelled upon Dean Swift's "Art of Polite Conversation" would be tolerated in no decent kitchen. Science & Education Dean Swift is said to have said: "I admire Händel principally because he conceals his petticoat peccadillos with such perfection." The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 The last, in fact, Dr. Sheridan, was a successful and eminent schoolmaster, the intimate friend of Dean Swift, and an author. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 2 In 1814 he edited a nineteen-volume edition of Dean Swift's works, with a Life, and in the same year began--almost by accident--the real work of his own career, in "Waverley." Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam The details were worked out with the frank contempt for possibility which characterizes some of the famous suggestions of Dean Swift. Hyacinth Because I hear Dean Swift is with you. Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 He was a lordly man in his day was Händel; and dared to cut that terrible Dean Swift, whose love affairs are perhaps the chief riddle of all amorous chronicle. The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 After a time the mental powers become impaired, and complete idiocy often follows; as was the case in the celebrated Dean Swift. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 269, August 18, 1827 Captain Crichton, the friend of Dean Swift, who published his Memoirs, found him a private gentleman in the King's Life-Guards. Old Mortality, Volume 1. He was pretty cheery, and told a comical anecdote of Dean Swift. Memories of Hawthorne In order to carry out properly such a plan as this the writer should take Defoe as his model, or, still better, Dean Swift. A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder THOMAS—Noted for being an intimate friend of Dean Swift, and the grandfather of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe Among these turned up a new and fine edition of "Captain Gulliver's Travels," by Mr. Dean Swift. Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker Dean Swift, the great Irish satirist, coined the word "phiz" for face. How to Speak and Write Correctly Dean Swift, by the very constitution of his mind, plain, sinewy, nervous, and courting only the strength that allies itself with homeliness, was always indisposed to this mode of correspondence. Biographical Essays Except Rabelais and Dean Swift, nobody ever had such science of filth and corruption. Representative Men Who displayed a bust of Dean Swift in his window, while publishing Lord Orrery's offensive remarks upon the Dean. The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe "I can write well on any topic—all are alike to me!" said Dean Swift to Stella. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists One morning there was a loud knock at Dean Swift's door. Fifty Famous People The two works which he interposed were a collection of the fugitive papers, whether prose or verse, which he and Dean Swift had scattered amongst their friends at different periods of life. Biographical Essays If there is any truth in the tradition that, had it been carried out, Dean Swift would have been sent as Bishop of Virginia, we may be thankful that it failed. Report of Commemorative Services with the Sermons and Addresses at the Seabury Centenary, 1883-1885. Two Riddles Enigma Another Riddles by Dean Swift and his friends. The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe So said Dean Swift in his Argument against abolishing Christianity. The Fair Haven He was a great admirer of Dean Swift, and took pleasure in sending him presents of game. Fifty Famous People Dean Swift, who had lived for months together at Twickenham, declares that he had not only never witnessed, but had never heard of anything like it. Biographical Essays A diminutive man or woman: from Gulliver's Travels, written by Dean Swift, where an imaginary kingdom of dwarfs of that name is described. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue Who that has read Dean Swift's disgusting description of the Yahoos, and insipid one of Houyhnhnm with a philosophical eye, can avoid seeing the futility of degrading the passions, or making man rest in contentment? Vindication of the Rights of Woman "The rascal foiled me at capping verses," Dean Swift said, "and won a tenpenny piece of me, plague take him!" Burlesques Just step inside and make believe that you are Dean Swift. Fifty Famous People Dean Swift said that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before serves well of his kind. Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller This is the reason why the works of the ingenious Dean Swift, who has been called the English Rabelais, will never be well understood in France. Letters on England ‘What religion is he of?’ asks Dean Swift. Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) "Oh," she continued apologetically, "of course there are Dean Swift and Thomas Moore and Charles Lever." Penelope's Irish Experiences Jonathan Swift, often called Dean Swift, was famous as a writer on many subjects. Fifty Famous People In my enforced and accidental temper, and thoughts of things and of people, with Dean Swift. Sesame and Lilies Dean Swift is Rabelais in his senses, and frequenting the politest company. Letters on England The celebrated Dean Swift formed a design, in the latter end of the late Queen’s reign, to found an academy for the English tongue upon the model of that of the French. 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