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Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift, detail of an oil painting by Charles Jervas, c. 1718; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
After his death in 1745, the Anglo-Irish author and clergyman Jonathan Swift was buried in St. Patrickâs Cathedral in Dublin.1
His memorial tablet features an epitaph he composed himself, which states that he lies "where savage indignation can no longer tear his heart."1