The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin (1766)

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HISTORY OF THB SECOND SOLOMON []. Written in the Year 1729. HE became acquainted with a perfon diftin- guifhed for poetical and other writings, and in an eminent ftation, who treated him with great kindnefs on all occafions, and he became familiar in this perfon's houfe [wj. In three months time, Solomon, without the leaft provocation, writ a long poem, defcribing that perfon's Mufe to be dead, and making a funeral folemnity with afles, owls,

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Jonathan Swift, geboren 1667 in Dublin, 1689-1694 Sekretär des Schriftstellers Sir William Temple in England, dann anglikanischer Geistlicher und von 1713 an Dekan von St. Patrick's in Dublin. Mit seinen beißenden Satiren kämpfte er gegen kirchliche und gesellschaftliche Mißstände. Er starb 1745.

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