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See also:SWIFT, See also:JONATHAN (1667—1745) , See also:dean of St See also:Patrick's, See also:Dublin, See also:British satirist, was See also:born at No. 7 Hoey's See also:Court, Dublin, on the 30th of See also:November 1667, a few months after the See also:death of his See also:father, Jonathan Swift (164o—1667), who married about 1664 Abigaile Erick, of an old See also:Leicestershire See also:family. He was taken over to See also:England as an See also:infant and nursed at See also:Whitehaven, whence he returned to See also:Ireland in his See also:fourth See also:year. His grandfather, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Swift, See also:vicar of See also:Goodrich near See also:Ross, appears to have been a doughty member of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church militant, who lost his possessions by taking the losing See also:side in the See also:Civil See also:War and died in 1658 before the restoration could bring him redress. He married See also:Elizabeth, niece of See also:Sir See also:Erasmus See also:Dryden, the poet's grandfather. Hence the familiarity of the poet's well-known " cooling-card " to the budding See also:genius of his kinsman Jonathan: " See also:Cousin Swift, you will never be a poet." The See also:young Jonathan was educated mainly at the charges of his See also:uncle See also:Godwin, a See also:Tipperary See also:official, who was thought to See also:dole out his help in a somewhat grudging manner. In fact the apparently prosperous relative was the victim of unfortunate speculations, and See also:chose rather to be reproached with avarice than with imprudence. The youth was resentful of what he regarded as curmudgeonly treatment, a bitterness became ingrained and began to corrode his whole nature; and although he came in See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to grasp the real See also:state of the See also:case he never mentioned his uncle with kindness or regard. At six he went to See also:Kilkenny School, where See also:Congreve was a schoolfellow; at fourteen he entered pensioner at Trinity See also:College, Dublin, where he seems to have neglected his opportunities. He was referred in natural. See also:philosophy, including See also:mathematics, and obtained his degree only by a See also:special but by no means infrequent See also:act of See also:indulgence. The patronage of his uncle galled him: he was dull and unhappy. We find in Swift few signs of precocious genius. As with See also:Goldsmith, and so many other men who have become artists of the See also:pen, college proved a stepmother to him.
In 1688 the See also:rich uncle, whose supposed riches had dwindled
so much that at his death he was almost insolvent, died, having decayed, it would seem, not less in mind than in See also:body and See also:estate, and Swift sought counsel of his See also:mother at See also:Leicester. After a brief See also:residence with his mother, who was needlessly alarmed at the See also:idea of her son falling a victim to some casual coquette, Swift towards the See also:close of 1689 entered upon an engagement as secretary to Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Temple, whose wife (Dorothy See also:Osborne) was distantly related to Mrs Swift. It was at See also:Moor See also:Park, near See also:Farnham, the residence to which Temple had retired to cultivate apricots after the rapid decline of his See also:influence during the See also:critical See also:period of See also:Charles II.'s reign (1679-1681), that Swift's acquaintance with See also:Esther See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson, the " Stella " of the famous See also:Journal, was begun. Stella's mother was living at Moor Park, as servant or See also:dame de compagnie of Temple's strong-minded See also:sister, See also:Lady See also:Giffard. Swift was twenty-two and Esther eight years old at the time, and a curious friendship sprang up between them. He taught the little girl how to write and gave her See also:advice in See also:reading. On his arrival at Moor Park, Swift was, in his own words, a raw, inexperienced youth, and his duties were merely those of See also:account-keeper and See also:amanuensis: his ability gradually won him the confidence of his employer, and he was entrusted with some important See also:missions. He was introduced to William III. during that monarch's visit to Sir William's, and on one occasion accompanied the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king in his walks See also:round the grounds. In 1693 Temple sent him to try and convince the king of the inevitable See also:necessity of triennial parliaments. William remained unconvinced and Swift's vanity received a useful See also:lesson. The king had previously taught him " how to cut See also:asparagus after the Dutch See also:fashion." Next year, however, Swift (who had in the meantime obtained the degree of M.A. ad eundem at See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford) quitted Temple, who had, he considered, delayed too See also:long in obtaining him preferment. A certificate of conduct while under Temple's roof was required by all the Irish bishops he consulted before they would proceed in the See also:matter of his ordination, and after five months' delay, caused by wounded See also:pride, Swift had to See also:kiss the See also:rod and solicit in obsequious terms the favour of a testimonial from his discarded See also:patron. Forgiveness was easy to a See also:man of Temple's See also:elevation and temperament, and he not only despatched the necessary recommendation but added a See also:personal See also:request which obtained for Swift the small prebend of Kilroot near See also:Belfast (See also:January 1695), where the new See also:incumbent carried on a premature flirtation with a See also:Miss Jane Waring, whom he called " Varina." In the See also:spring of 1696 he asked the reluctant Varina to wait until he was in a position to marry. Just four years later he wrote to her in terms of such calculated harshness and imposed such conditions as to make further intercourse virtually impossible.
In the meantime he had grown tired of Irish See also:life and was glad to accept Temple's proposal for his return to Moor Park, where he continued until Temple's death in January 1699. During this period he wrote much and burned most of what he had written. He read and learned even more than he wrote. Moor Park took him away from brooding and glooming in Ireland and brought him into the See also:corridor of contemporary See also:history, an intimate acquaintance with which became the See also:chief See also:passion of Swift's life. His Pindaric Odes, written at this period or earlier, in the manner of See also:Cowley, indicate the rudiments of a real satirist, but a satirist struggling with a most uncongenial See also:form of expression. Of more importance was his first See also:essay in satiric See also:prose which arose directly from the position which he occupied as domestic author in the Temple See also:household. Sir William had in 1692 published his Essay upon See also:Ancient and See also:Modern Learning, transplanting to England a controversy begun in See also:France by See also:Fontenelle. Incidentally Temple had cited the letters of See also:Phalaris as See also:evidence of the superiority of the Ancients over the Moderns. Temple's praise of Phalaris-led to an Oxford edition of the Epistles nominally edited by Charles See also:Boyle. 'While this was preparing, William See also:Wotton, in 1694, wrote his Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning, traversing Temple's See also:general conclusions. Swift's See also:Battle of the Books was written in 1697 expressly to refute this. Boyle's Vindication and See also:Bentley's refutation of the authenticity of Phalaris came later.
End of Article: SWIFT, JONATHAN (1667—1745)
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