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LemuelGulliver,asurgeononamerchantship,isshipwreckedonthestrangeislandofLilliputwheretheinhabitantsareonlysixinchestall.Aftertheyovercometheirtimidityaboutthegiantintheirmidst,Gulliverbecomesembroiledintheislanders
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(1667-1745),ed.atTrinityCollege,Dublin,enteredhouseholdofSirW.TempleatMoorPark1692,andbecamehissecretray,becameknowntoWilliamIII.,andmetE.Johnson(Stella),leftT.in1694andreturnedtoIreland,tookordersandwroteTaleofaTubandBattleofBooks(published1704),returnedtoSirW.T.1698,andonhisdeathin1699publishedhisworks,returnedtoIrelandandobtainedsomesmallpreferments,visitsLondonandbecameoneofthecircleofAddison,etc.,desertstheWhigsandjoinstheTories1710,attackingtheformerinvariouspapersandpamphlets,DeanofSt.1713,hebeganhisJournaltoStella,Drapier’sLettersappeared1724,visitsEngland,andjoinswithPopeandArbuthnotinMiscellanies1726,publishedGulliver’sTravels1727.