With the demise of Queen Anne in August 1714 and the attainment of the throne by George I, the Tories were a ruined party, and Swift’s vocation in England was at an end. He extracted to Ireland, where he was to pass most of the rest of his life. After a period of seclusion in his deanship, Swift slowly regained […]
Humans are a vessel to a myriad of emotions; happiness, sadness, regret, remorse, excitement, fear, and pity. The list goes on and on. Some emotions cannot even be described in words. They do not have names associated with them in the dictionary. The human heart can only feel them. Catharsis, on the other side of […]