Returning to the log-house he found some favorite lines from Jonathan Swift on his lips:

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729.

Phiddian stresses that a reader of the pamphlet must learn to distinguish between the satiric voice of Jonathan Swift and the apparent economic projections of the Proposer.

A Modest Proposal is the name of The University of Texas at Dallas ' Alternative Student Newspaper, the monthly opinion paper of the University ; it was also the name of a regular column in SWIFT Magazine of Harvard University, a satire publication that also takes its name from Jonathan Swift.

Category: Essays by Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift and Henry Fielding use Abigail in this generic sense, as does Charlotte Brontë.

Capp has been compared, at various times, to Mark Twain, Dostoevski, Jonathan Swift, Lawrence Sterne and Rabelais.

In Jonathan Swift's poem: " The Progress of Beauty ", as goddess of the moon, Diana is used in comparison to the 17th / early 18th century everyday woman Swift satirically writes about.

Other influential writers and playwrights include Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift and the creator of Dracula, Bram Stoker.

As a satirical utopia, Erewhon has sometimes been compared to Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ), a classic novel by Jonathan Swift ; the image of Utopia in this latter case also bears strong parallels with the self-view of the British Empire at the time.

Johnson defined it with two poems, one by Jonathan Swift, the other by Sir John Suckling.

They couple were friends of Dean Jonathan Swift and, through him, of Alexander Pope.

* Jonathan Swift once lived across the road from the Glasnevin Model School, which is now the Glasnevin Educate Together School.

" G. K. Chesterton compared it to Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels: " Gilbert pursued and persecuted the evils of modern England till they had literally not a leg to stand on, exactly as Swift did ...

His writing style, especially in his many letters, owes much to Augustan British writers of the Enlightenment like Joseph Addison and Jonathan Swift.

Rabelais was by far Sterne's favourite author, and in his correspondence he made clear that he considered himself as Rabelais ' successor in humor writing, distancing himself from Jonathan Swift:

Among the books he authored are Guilty Men ( an attack on Neville Chamberlain and others for the policy of appeasement ), a biography of Jonathan Swift ( The Pen and the Sword, 1957 ) and a biography of Aneurin Bevan.

Jonathan Swift, for example, wrote in 1713 about " those who are now commonly called Prime Minister among us ", referring to Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin and Robert Harley, Queen Anne's Lord Treasurers and chief ministers.

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* Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ) by Jonathan Swift

Satirical novels with fantastic settings such as Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift may be considered speculative fiction.

Jonathan Swift was a strong advocate for licensing, and Daniel Defoe wrote on 8 November 1705 that with the absence of licensing, " One Man Studies Seven Year, to bring a finish'd Peice into the World, and a Pyrate Printer, Reprints his Copy immediately, and Sells it for a quarter of the Price ... these things call for an Act of Parliament ".

Two centuries later Jonathan Swift said he was " the person of the greatest virtue this kingdom ever produced ," a sentiment with which Samuel Johnson agreed.

More was greatly admired by the Anglican writer Jonathan Swift.

* 1977 – Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Irish actor

* July 27 – Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Irish actor

* November 30 – Jonathan Swift, Irish writer ( d. 1745 )

The Irish actor Richard Harris won a Grammy in 1973 for the Audiobook LP Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

He was the only son of Joseph Brewer Palmer Smyth and Georgina Caroline Pitt Pilkington, granddaughter of the Irish writer Laetitia Pilkington who was a protégée of Jonathan Swift.

* Jonathan Douglas ( born 1981 ), Irish football player

Jonathan Swift for Irish Ferries.

Protestants in Ireland, and the Anglo-Irish class in particular, were by no means universally attached to the cause of continued political union with Great Britain: for instance, author Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745 ), a clergyman in the Church of Ireland, vigorously denounced the plight of ordinary Irish people under British rule.

Jonathan Swift inspired the Irish Loan Funds of the 18th and 19th centuries.

All the major poets of the period, Samuel Butler, John Dryden, Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson, and the Irish poet Jonathan Swift, wrote satirical verse.

Another important early novel is Gulliver's Travels ( 1726, amended 1735 ), by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, which is both a satire of human nature, as well as a parody of travellers ' tales like Robinson Crusoe.

* Jonathan Pim ( 1806 – 1885 ), Irish politician

* Jonathan Pim ( 1858 – 1949 ), Irish lawyer and politician

Throughout its long history the cathedral has contributed much to Irish life, and one key aspect of this relates to the writer and satirist Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels, who was Dean of the cathedral from 1713 to 1745.

* Jonathan Swift-A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture

In 2004, the Irish Repertory Theatre staged a well-received Off-Broadway production starring Melissa Errico and Jonathan Freeman.

Notable Irish writers include Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Bram Stoker, Jonathan Swift, George Bernard Shaw and W. B. Yeats.

* date unknown – Jonathan Fisher, Irish painter ( b. unknown )

They were supported by popular sentiment that came from the various publications of William Molyneux about Irish constitution independence ; this was later reinforced by Jonathan Swift's incorporation of these ideas into Drapier's Letters.

In Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745 ), Irish literature in English found its first writer of real genius.

Jonathan Swift, the first Irish novelist of note.

Irish fiction can be said to begin with the publication in 1726 of Jonathan Swift's masterpiece Gulliver's Travels.

There was also a mass rally outside Belfast City Hall on 23 November against the Agreement, with Northern Irish historian Dr Jonathan Bardon saying of it: " Nothing like it had been seen since 1912 ".

This drew the attention of satirist and Irish cleric Jonathan Swift.