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- Lilliput: "the young Girls of Quality are educated much like the Males...Thus the young Ladies there are as much ashamed of being Cowards and Fools as the Men, and despise all personal Ornaments beyond Decency and Cleanliness: ...their maxim is, that among People of Quality a Wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable Companion, because she cannot always be young. (I:6;15)
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| Festina lente | 'make haste slowly'(see article "Festina lente" ; according to Swift, his great-great-grandfather "altered the family coat-of-arms and gives as his own device, a Dolphin (in those days called a Swift) twisted about an anchor, with this motto, Festina lente" ("Anecdotes Of The Family Of Swift" |
| Jane Fenton | 1666-1738; Swift's older sister; he referred to her has "Mrs. Fenton" or sometimes "Jenny" in his correspondence; Jane was in the service of Lady Giffard1711-22; both Swift and his mother disliked Jane's husband, Joseph Fenton, creating some family friction;
I pity poor Jenny -- but her husband is a dunce, and with respect to him, she loses little by her deafness. (Journal to Stella, 8 September 1711)
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Fetter Lane
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located east of St. Paul's Cathedral, running north/south between Holbourn
and Fleet Street; other occupants include John Dryden (1631-1700), Thomas
Hobbes (1588-1679), and Tom Paine. (source:
London
Encyclopædia )
- Gulliver relocates his surgical practice from the Old Jury to Fetter Lane and then to Wapping (1:1;3)
- later inherits income property in Fetter Lane. "I had a long Lease of the Black-Bull in Fetter-Lane" (I:8;11)
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| Firearms |
Firearms figure very little in the Travels, the first voyage
being the only one in which Gulliver mentions carrying such weapons himself.
Lilliput>: Gulliver is searched and they discover his pocket pistols, gunpowder, and balls, with which they are unfamiliar.
- "a hollow Pillar of Iron, about the length of a Man, fastened to a strong piece of Timber, larger than the Pillar; and upon one side of the Pillar were huge Pieces of Iron sticking out, cut into strange Figures" (I:2;7);
- "the hollow iron pillars, by which he meant my Pocket-Pistols" (I:2;8)
- "Globes or Balls of a most ponderous Metal, about the bigness of our Heads": (I:2;8)
- "a Heap of certain black Grains, but of no great Bulk or Weight, for we could hold above fifty of them in the Palms of our Hands." (I:2;8)
Houyhnhnm Land: Gulliver is set on shore without any firearms and the Houyhnhnms, of course, have none. The only mention of firearms is when the mutineers place a guard over him; "placed a Centry at my Door, with his Piece charged, who was commanded to shoot me dead, if I attempted my Liberty." (IV:1;2)
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| Flandona Gagnole | Laputan; "Astronomer's Cave"; "large dome...situated at the Depth of an Hundred Yards beneath the upper Surface of the Adamant" from which Laputa, the flying island, is navigated by means of a "Loadstone" (III:3;3); name translates into "London, England" [Clark] |
| Flanflasnic | Brobd.; Flanflasnic, a City within eighteen English Miles of the Sea-side" (II:8;3); translates into "fantastic" "fancy" or "far fancy" [Clark] |
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| flapper | Laputa; a servant who touches his master on the ear or mouth to prompt them to hear or speak, respectively;
- .. Servants, with a blown Bladder fastned like a Flail to the End of a short Stick, which they carried in their Hands....With these Bladders they now and then flapped the Mouths and Ears of those who stood near them ...the Minds of these People are so taken up with intense Speculations, that they neither can speak, nor attend to the Discourses of others, without being rouzed by some external Taction upon the Organs of Speech and Hearing; for which Reason those Persons who are able to afford it always keep a Flapper (the Original is Climenole... (III:2;1)
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| Flimnap |
treasurer of Lilliput; holds the title of Glumglum; Flimnap is believed to be modeled on Sir Robert
Walpole, a resilient British politician; "Prime Nave" [Clark]
- "Flimnap, the Treasurer, is allowed to cut a Caper on the strait Rope, at least an Inch higher than any other lord in the whole Empire." (I:3;2) Flimnap's skill at dancing on the rope is a satire on Walpole's surviving scandal, impeachment, and conviction on corruption charges to rise to Prime Minister.
- "a Year or two before my Arrival, Flimnap would have infallibly broken his Neck, if one of the King's Cushions, that accidentally lay on the Ground, had not weakened the Force of his Fall." (I:3;3) Walpole's career was rescued by the Duchess of Kendal (one of George I's mistresses or "one of the King's Cushions")
- "The Treasurer took a fancy to be jealous of his Wife, from the Malice of some Evil Tongues, who informed him that her Grace had taken a violent Affection for my Person;" (I:6;22) - a reference to Walpole's apparent unconcern with his wife's infidelity.
- "Skyresh Bolgolam... in conjunction with Flimnap the High Treasurer, whose Enmity against you is notorious on account of his Lady, Lalcon the Chamberlain, and Balmuff the grand Justiciary, have prepared Articles of Impeachment against you, for Treason, and other capital Crimes. (I:7;5)
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| Fluft drin Yalerick Dwuldum prastrad mirplush |
Luggnagg; second of two expressions of deference Gulliver is taught to recite while prostrating himself and licking the dust of the floor before the King of Luggnagg; Gulliver translates the phrase as "My
Tongue is in the Mouth of my Friend" i.e. "my companion will translate for me" (III:9;5); see also "Ickpling Gloffthrobb Squutserumm blhiop Mlashnalt Zwin tnodbalkguffh Slhiophad Gurdlubh Asht"; Clark decodes the phrase as "Push, sir, prostrate (your) middle till y'are mir'd (mid) (in) dirt"; |
| Flunec |
Blef. type of wine, similar to the Lilliputian Glimigrim; "France" or "nectar" [Clark] |
| Charles Ford | (1682-1743) Swift's good friend and frequent correspondent. |
| fraud | theft by deception;
- Lilliputians "look upon Fraud as a greater Crime than Theft" (I:6;5)
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| Clefren Frelock |
one of the two Lilliputians to search Gulliver
(I:2;9); per Clark, Clefren = Meddler or Maltreat or Murder; Frelock = Traitor |
| Frelock, Marsi |
one of the two Lilliputians to search Gulliver
(I:2;9); per Clark, Marsi = Malice and Frelock = Traitor |
