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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D. D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Vol. 14: With Notes, Historical and Critical (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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I borrowed your Homer from the bishop (mine is not yet landed) and read it out in two evenings. If it pleases others as well as me, you have got your end in profit and reputation: Yet I am angry at some bad rhymes and triplets, and pray in your next do not let me have so many unjustifiable rhymes+'to war and gods. I tell you all the faults I know, only in one or two places you are a little obscure; but I expected you to be so in one or two and twenty. I have heard no foul talk of it here, for indeed it is not come over; nor do we very much abound in judges, at least I have not the honour to be acquainted with them Your notes are perfectly good, and so are your preface and essay 4g. You were pretty hold in men tioning lord Bolingbroke in that preface. I saw the Key to the Lock but yesterday I think you have changed it a good deal, 'to adapt it to the present times§.
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Born in 1667, Jonathan Swift was an Irish writer and cleric, best known for his works Gulliver s Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Journal to Stella, amongst many others. Educated at Trinity College in Dublin, Swift received his Doctor of Divinity in February 1702, and eventually became Dean of St. Patrick s Cathedral in Dublin. Publishing under the names of Lemeul Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, and M. B. Drapier, Swift was a prolific writer who, in addition to his prose works, composed poetry, essays, and political pamphlets for both the Whigs and the Tories, and is considered to be one of the foremost English-language satirists, mastering both the Horatian and Juvenalian styles. Swift died in 1745, leaving the bulk of his fortune to found St. Patrick s Hospital for Imbeciles, a hospital for the mentally ill, which continues to operate as a psychiatric hospital today.
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- PublisherForgotten Books
- Publication date2020
- ISBN 10 1333190786
- ISBN 13 9781333190781
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages417
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