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Tom Brown (satirist)

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Thomas Brown (1662 – 18 June 1704), also known as Tom Brown, was an English translator and writer of satire, largely forgotten today save for a four-line gibe he wrote concerning Dr John Fell. [1]

17 relations: Aldersgate, Christ Church, Oxford, Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, England, Grub Street, Gulliver's Travels, Haberdashers' Adams, John Fell (bishop), Jonathan Swift, Joseph Addison, Kingston upon Thames, Martial, Newport, Shropshire, Satire, Shifnal, Shropshire, Westminster Abbey.

Aldersgate

Aldersgate is a Ward of the City of London, named after a gate in the ancient London Wall around the City.

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Christ Church, Oxford

Christ Church (Ædes Christi, the temple or house, ædēs, of Christ, and thus sometimes known as "The House") is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England.

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Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition

The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–11) is a 29-volume reference work, an edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Grub Street

Until the early 19th century, Grub Street was a street close to London's impoverished Moorfields district that ran from Fore Streer east of St Giles-without-Cripplegate north to Chiswell Street.

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Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.

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Haberdashers' Adams

Haberdashers' Adams is a grammar school for boys aged 11–18 and girls 16-18, located in Newport, Shropshire, offering day and boarding education.

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John Fell (bishop)

John Fell (23 June 1625 – 10 July 1686) was an English churchman and influential academic.

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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.

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Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison (1 May 1672 – 17 June 1719) was an English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician.

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Kingston upon Thames

Kingston upon Thames, also known as Kingston, is an area in the southwest of Greater London, England, southwest of Charing Cross.

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Martial

Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial) (March, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD) was a Roman poet from Hispania (modern Spain) best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan.

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Newport, Shropshire

Newport is a market town in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and ceremonial county of Shropshire, England.

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Satire

Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

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Shifnal

Shifnal is a market town and civil parish in Shropshire, England, about east of Telford.

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Shropshire

Shropshire (alternatively Salop; abbreviated, in print only, Shrops; demonym Salopian) is a county in the West Midlands of England, bordering Wales to the west, Cheshire to the north, Staffordshire to the east, and Worcestershire and Herefordshire to the south.

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Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Brown_(satirist)

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