The Life Work And Quotes Of Jonathan Swift

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The Life Work And Quotes Of Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift was a Satirist, Essayist, Poet, Priest, and Political pamphleteer. English Literature Buzz put some effort to collect information about this great writer, who is known as Jonathan Swift.

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He was born on 30th November 1667 in Dublin, Ireland and was died at the age of 77 on 19th October 1745 in Dublin, Ireland. He was an Anglo Irish.

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His father died seven months before he was born and his mother went to London after leaving him in the care of his influential uncle, Godwin.

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Jonathan Swift's Famous Work

Though he wrote many books his best-known works are:
1- Gulliver'sTravels
2- A Modest Proposal
3- A Tale of a Tube
4- Drapier's Letters

Gulliver's Travels is the most celebrated work of Swift. Though his works were published under the pen -names such as Lamuel Gulliver, Issac Bickerstaff, MB Drapier. He adopted two types of satirical styles the Horatian and Juvenalian.

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Jonathan Swift's Famous Quotes

1- Satire is a kind of mirror where everyone sees anything but not himself.

(Jonathan Swift)

2- Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

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3- Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.

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4- I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

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5- A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

(Jonathan Swift)