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Swift, a cousin of Dryden, was born in Dublin and went to school with the playwright Congreve. He completed his education at Trinity College, Dublin, where he gained his degree only by "special grace", because of his bad behaviour. Swift's life-long involvement with political concerns began in 16 .. .. more >>

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1		A Beautiful Young Nymph Going To Bed
2		A Description of a City Shower
3		A Description of the Morning
4		A Maypole
5		A Satirical Elegy
6		A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General
7		Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers
8		Elegy Upon Tiger
9		Mrs Frances Haris's Petition
10		On Stella's Birth-Day, 1719
11		On Stephen Duck, the Thresher, and Favourite Poet. A Quibbl
12		Oysters
13		Phillis, Or, the Progress of Love
14		Stella's Birthday March 13, 1719
15		Stella's Birthday March 13, 1727
16		The Beasts' Confession
17		The Place of the Damned
18		The Progress of Poetry
20		To Quilca, A Country-House in no very good Repair, where th

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"I to such blockheads set my wit!
I damn such fools!—Go, go, you're bit.'"
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Anglo-Irish poet, satirist, clergyman. The Day of Judgement (l. 21-22). . . The Complete Poems [Jonathan Swift]. Pat Rogers, ed. (1983) Penguin Books.

"With a whirl of thought oppressed
I sink from reverie to rest.
An horrid vision seized my head,
I saw the graves give up their dead."
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Anglo-Irish poet, satirist, clergyman. The Day of Judgement (l. 1-4). . . The Complete Poems [Jonathan Swift]. Pat Rogers, ed. (1983) Penguin Books.

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Jonathan Swift was born at No. 7, Hoey's Court, Dublin, and was the second child and only son of Jonathan Swift (a second cousin of John Dryden) and wife ...
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Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin. His father, Jonathan Swift Sr., a lawyer and an English civil servant, died seven month's before his son was born. ...
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