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- Defunción19 de octubre de 1745 · Dublin, Kingdom of Ireland [now Republic of Ireland] (causa no comunicada)
- Jonathan Swift nació el 30 de noviembre de 1667 en Dublin, Kingdom of Ireland [ahora Republic of Ireland]. Fue un escritor, conocido por Gullivers Reisen, Los viajes de Gulliver (2010) y Gullivers Reisen (1924). Murió el 19 de octubre de 1745 en Dublin, Kingdom of Ireland [ahora Republic of Ireland].
- Was a clergyman. Took his orders in 1694 and was appointed vicar of Kilroot, near Belfast. His first writings were ecclesiastical in nature. Joined the Tory Party in 1710, became its leading writer and editor of The Examiner (1711). Also contributed articles to publications like Tatler. Swift became a champion of Irish grievances at the hands of Whig politics. He wrote "Gulliver's Travels" fairly late in his career (1726). Swift is especially noteworthy for being one of the first writers to use prose as a means of satire.
- Anglo-Irish author of the celebrated novel "Gulliver's Travels" (1726). He has been called the foremost prose satirist in the English language.
- George Orwell used Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels as inspiration to pen his anti-utopia novel 1984 (1984).
- There is now a novel "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole.
- Books, the children of the brain.
- Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
- Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.
- It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.
- The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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