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A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue (1712) [ Concepts ]

… multiply cant words, which is the most ruinous corruption in any language." … Corruption … Eloquence … Text taken from  Jonathan Swift,  A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue  [1712], in  The works of Jonathan Swift ... accurately revised ... adorned with copper-plates; with some account of the author's life, and notes …
Corruption  |  Eloquence
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Hints Toward an Essay on Conversation (c. 1713) [ Practices ]

… farther than in parties at play, or dancing, or in the pursuit of an amour." … Conversation … Audience … Taken from Jonathan Swift,"Hints Toward an Essay on Conversation" (c. 1713),  The works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin.  Printed for W. Bowyer, R. and J. Dodsley, and L. Davis and C. Reymers …
Conversation  |  Audience
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Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]

… of Wales Press, 2020). Hansen, Mascha and Juhas, Kirsten,  ‘Speaking with/of the Dead: Hester Thrale Piozzi and Jonathan Swift’ in H. Real, K. Juhas and J. Bischof (eds.), Reading Swift: Papers from The Seventh Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift (Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag; 2019), p. 527-552. Hansen, Mascha, ‘A Bluestocking Friendship: The …
Bluestockings  |  Commerce  |  Friendship  |  Italy  |  Literature  |  Politics
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A Description of a City Shower (1711) [ Places ]

… down the flood. … Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs, Forget their feuds and join to save their wigs. … Streets … Jonathan Swift, "A Description of a City Shower",  Miscellanies in prose and verse.  London: printed for John Morphew, near …
Streets
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Scriblerus Club [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]

… the ‘Scriblerian spirit’ that was developed in these few meetings never left their participants. The club consisted of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Arbuthnot, John Gay, and Thomas Parnell, as well as Robert Harley, then the secretary of the … they were doing so as part of a club – lasted only for less than a year, starting in the spring of 1714, and ending with Jonathan Swift’s move to Ireland in November of that same year, but the ‘Scriblerian spirit’ that was developed in these …
Academies  |  Friendship  |  Satire
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English Novel [ Literary & Artistic genres ]

… Front pages of Dutchess of Malfi (1728) and Pamela (1741) Image Anti-Pamelas, 1741, 1741, 1742 Image Front pages of Jonathan Wild, 1725 and 1743 Image Front pages of Idalia (1723) and Roxana (1742) Image Jonathan Swift, ‘Frontispiece to the fifth edition of The Battle of the Books’, 1710 [1704], WikiCommons, …
Antagonism  |  Conflict  |  Fiction  |  Parody  |  Rivalry
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Cant [ Language & Speech ]

… attempts at fixing the rules of language so as to guarantee sociability. The aim was to get rid of ‘abuses of words’. 3 Jonathan Swift, in 1712, published a letter addressed to Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, in which he warned his readers against the … An Essay Concerning Human Understanding [1690], ed. Peter H. Nidditch (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975) p. 490-491. 4 . Jonathan Swift, A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue [1712] in Valerie Rumbold …
Controversy  |  Conversation  |  Hypocrisy  |  Rhetoric
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Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]

… began an acquaintance among the wits – Mrs Grierson, Mrs Sycon and Mrs Pilkington; the latter is a bosom friend of Dean Swift’s, and I hope among them I shall be able to pick up some entertainment.' 1 In the following months, she repeatedly spent some time with Jonathan Swift at his friend and biographer’s, Patrick Delany. At the time, following Hesther Johnson (Stella)’s death, … Works, ed. by John Nichols (London: J. Johnson, 1801), vol. 13 (Letters), p. 241. On that point, also see David Nokes, Jonathan Swift: A Hypocrite Reversed (London: Oxford University Press, 1985), p. 385. Salonnière In the following years, …
Assemblies  |  Bluestockings  |  Correspondence  |  Court  |  Ireland  |  Propriety  |  Women
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Conversation [ Communication / Education / Social interaction / Language & Speech ]

Children  |  Controversy  |  Gentleman  |  Masculinity  |  Politeness  |  Science  |  Women
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Street sociability [ Cities ]

… 24 hours on the streets – with its cast of freshly observed human types, and varied joys and tribulations, and in Jonathan Swift’s Description of a London Shower (1710). 4 It reached a kind of early apotheosis in John Gay’s monumental Trivia: … Monday, August 11, 1712’, Richard Steele and Joseph Addison, Spectator, 1711-1714, ed. D.F. Bond, 5 vols (Oxford, 1965); Jonathan Swift, ‘A Description of a City Shower’ (1711), ed. Roger Lonsdale, The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century …
Crime  |  Streets  |  Rules  |  Women
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