Jonathan Swift Grave. 성 패트릭 성당(St. Patrick's Cathedral). 더블린(Dublin)

Jonathan Swift Grave. 성 패트릭 성당(St. Patrick's Cathedral).

더블린(Dublin). 아일랜드(Ireland)

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Cast of Jonathan Swift's Skull

19the century

 

Death Mask of Jonathan Swift.

 

Death Mask of Jonathan Swift

c. 1745

From the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, it was common to make casts of the faces of well-to-do people or celebrities before they were buried. When Jonathan Swift died in 1745 Dr John Lyon, who was in charge of the Deanery, had an artist make such a mask of Swift's face. He then deposited the mask in Trinity College Dublin.

 

Swift

 

 

Underneath lie

interred the mortal Remains

of Mrs Hester Johnson better

known to the World by the Name of Stella

under which the is celebrated in the Writings of

Dr Jonathan Swift Dean of this Cathedral.

She was s Person of Extraordinary Endowments

and Accomplisments in Body, Mind and Behaviour;

jusdy admired and respected, by all who

knew her, on account of her many eminent virtues,

as well as for her great natural and

acquired Perfections.

She dyed January the 27th 1727-8

in the 46th year of her Age and

by her Will bequeathed one

thousand Pounds towards the

Support of a Chaplain to

the Hospital founded in

this City by Doctor

Steevens.

 

Jonathan Swift - The Man

STELLA this day is thirty-four

(We shan't dispute a year or more)

However, Stella, be not troubled,

Although thy size and years are doubled

Since first I saw theee at sixteen,

The brightest virgin on the green.

So little is thy form declined;

Made up so largely in thy mind...

- from on Stella's Brithday", 13 March 1718

 

Although Jonathan Swift remained unmarried, two women figured prominently in his life. Esther Johnson - "Stella" - was a child at Moor Park in Surrey, the home of Sir William Temple, for whom Swift worked as secretary. As their friendship developed he took great delight in supervising her reading and education. Stella followed him to Ireland, and with her friend Rebecca Dingley as chaperone lived close to him in Dublin. The 'ladies' also took a cottage near Swift's country parish of Laracor in Co. Meath. When he was away in London, Swift wrote to Stella daily.

 

In London he became involved with Esther Van Homrigh - "Vanessa". She also followed him back to Ireland, taking up residence in Celbridge Abbey. Their letters would seem to indicate that the two were in love, at least for a time. Eventually Swift cut off all contact with Vanessa, probably because of his relationship with Stella.

 

When Stella died in 1728, Swift was devastated. on the evening of her burial in the Cathedral Swift moved into a room in the front of the Deanery so that he would not see the lights of her funeral.

 

Stella

 

Vanessa

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