… farther than in parties at play, or dancing, or in the pursuit of an amour." … Conversation … Audience … Taken from JonathanSwift,"Hints Toward an Essay on Conversation" (c. 1713), The works of Dr. JonathanSwift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin. Printed for W. Bowyer, R. and J. Dodsley, and L. Davis and C. Reymers …
… of Wales Press, 2020). Hansen, Mascha and Juhas, Kirsten, ‘Speaking with/of the Dead: Hester Thrale Piozzi and JonathanSwift’ in H. Real, K. Juhas and J. Bischof (eds.), Reading Swift: Papers from The Seventh Münster Symposium on JonathanSwift (Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag; 2019), p. 527-552. Hansen, Mascha, ‘A Bluestocking Friendship: The …
… down the flood. … Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs, Forget their feuds and join to save their wigs. … Streets … JonathanSwift, "A Description of a City Shower", Miscellanies in prose and verse. London: printed for John Morphew, near …
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… the ‘Scriblerian spirit’ that was developed in these few meetings never left their participants. The club consisted of JonathanSwift, 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 JonathanSwift’s move to Ireland in November of that same year, but the ‘Scriblerian spirit’ that was developed in these …
… attempts at fixing the rules of language so as to guarantee sociability. The aim was to get rid of ‘abuses of words’. 3 JonathanSwift, 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 . JonathanSwift, A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue [1712] in Valerie Rumbold …
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… would discipline and polish male tongues. 7 ‘If there were no other Use in the Conversation of Ladies’, argued JonathanSwift, ‘it is sufficient that it would lay a Restraint upon those odious Topicks of Immodesty and Indecencies, into which … [1671], cited in Domna C. Stanton, The Aristocrat as Art (New York: Columbia University Press, 1980), p. 139. 8 . JonathanSwift, Hints Towards an Essay on Conversation [1713] in The Works of JonathanSwift, 2 vols. (Edinburgh: William …
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