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Documentation for Template:RQ:Swift Miscellanies. [edit]
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Usage

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This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from a collection of Jonathan Swift's works entitled Miscellanies in Prose and Verse (1st edition, 1711). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work (contents) at Google Books (archived at the Internet Archive).

Where a specific quotation template exists (for example, {{RQ:Swift Nobles and Commons}}), use it instead of this template.

Parameters

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The template takes the following parameters:

  • |1=, |poem=, or |title=mandatory: the name of the poem or work quoted from. If the parameter is given the value indicated in the first column of the following table, the template will link to a relevant English Wikipedia article and/or provide the date when the work was first composed or published:
Works by Jonathan Swift
Parameter value Result First page number
Humorous essays
Accomplishment The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff’s Predictions. Being an Account of the Death of Mr. Partrige, the Almanack-maker. Upon the 29th Instant. [] (1708) page 283
Broom-stick A Meditation upon a Broom-stick. [] (1704) page 231
Predictions Predictions for the Year 1708. [] page 305
Merlin The Famous Prediction of Merlin, the British Wizard. Written above a Thousand Years ago, and Relating to this Present Year, 1709 page 261
Vindication A Vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq; against what is Objected to Him by Mr. Partrige, in His Almanack for the Present Year, 1709. [] (1709) page 291
Poetry
Apollo Outwitted Apollo Outwitted. [] (1709) page 399
Baucis and Philemon Baucis and Philemon. Imitated, from the Eighth Book of Ovid. [] (1708) page 377
Biddy Floyd To Mrs. Biddy Floyd. Anno. 1708. page 388
City Shower A Description of a City Shower. October, 1710. page 406
Cutpurse Lady B[etty] B[erkeley] Finding in the Authors Room Some Verses Unfinished, Underwrit a Stanza of Her Own, with Raillery upon Him, which Gave Occasion to This Ballade. [] To the Tune of the Cutpurse. (1699) page 361
Harris To Their Excellencies the Lords Justices of Ireland. The Humble Petition of Frances Harris, Who Must Starve, and Die a Maid if It Miscarries. [] (1699) page 353
History of Vanbrugh's House The History of V[anbrugh]’s House. Anno. 1708. page 389
Lady's Ivory Tablebook Wrote in a Lady’s Ivory Table-book. [] (1699) page 351
Partridge Elegy A Grubstreet Elegy on the Supposed Death of Patrige the Almanack-maker. Anno. 1708. page 392
Salamander The Description of a Salamander. [] (1706) page 372
Sid Hamet The Virtues of Sid Hamet the Magician’s Rod. Written, 1710. page 411
Vanbrugh's House V[anbrugh]’s House Built from the Ruins of White-Hall that was Burnt. [] (1703) page 364
Non-fiction
Abolishing of Christianity An Argument to Prove that the Abolishing of Christianity in England, may as Things now Stand, be Attended with Some Inconveniencies, and Perhaps Not Produce Those Many Good Effects Proposed thereby (1708) page 152
Advancement of Religion A Project for the Advancement of Religion, and the Reformation of Manners. [] (1709) page 182
Faculties of the Mind A Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind. [] (1707) page 247
Nobles and Commons A Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and the Commons in Athens and Rome, with the Consequences They Had upon Both Those States. [] (1701) page 1
Religion and Government The Sentiments of a Church of England-man with Respect to Religion and Government. [] (1708) page 95
Sacramental Test A Letter from a Member of the House of Commons in Ireland, to a Member of the House of Commons in England, Concerning the Sacramental Test. [] (1708) page 315
Various Thoughts Various Thoughts, Moral and Diverting. [] page 235
For help with linking other Wikipedia articles to the template or adding the date when a work was first composed or published, leave a message on the talk page or at "Wiktionary:Grease pit".
  • |chapter= – if the work is divided into chapters, the name of the chapter (preferably) or chapter number quoted from.
  • |stanza= or |section= – if the work is subdivided into stanzas or sections, the stanza number (in uppercase Roman numerals) or section number quoted from.
  • |2= or |page=, or |pages=mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from. If quoting a range of pages, note the following:
    • Separate the first and last page number of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=10–11.
    • You must also use |pageref= to indicate the page to be linked to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).
This parameter must be specified to have the template link to an online version of the work.
  • |3=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.
  • |footer= – a comment on the passage quoted.
  • |brackets= – use |brackets=on to surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, "some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell") rather than an actual use of it (for example, "we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset"), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.

Examples

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  • Wikitext:
    • {{RQ:Swift Miscellanies|title=Religion and Government|page=98|passage=But before Things proceed to open Violence, the trueſt Service a private Man may hope to do his Country, is by '''unbiaſſing''' his Mind as much as poſſible, and then endeavoring to moderate between the Rival Powers, {{...}}}}; or
    • {{RQ:Swift Miscellanies|Religion and Government|98|But before Things proceed to open Violence, the trueſt Service a private Man may hope to do his Country, is by '''unbiaſſing''' his Mind as much as poſſible, and then endeavoring to moderate between the Rival Powers, {{...}}}}
  • Result:
    • 1708 January, [Jonathan Swift], “The Sentiments of a Church of England-man with Respect to Religion and Government”, in Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, London: [] John Morphew [], published 1711, →OCLC, page 98:
      But before Things proceed to open Violence, the trueſt Service a private Man may hope to do his Country, is by unbiaſſing his Mind as much as poſſible, and then endeavoring to moderate between the Rival Powers, []
  • Wikitext: {{RQ:Swift Miscellanies|title=Salamander|pages=374–375|pageref=374|passage=So vvhen the VVar has rais'd a Storm, / I've ſeen a ''Snake'' in human Form, / All ſtain'd in Infamy and Vice, / Leap from the Dunghill in a trice, / '''Burniſh''' and make a gaudy ſhovv, / Become a General, Peer, and Beau, / Till Peace hath made the Sky Serene, / Then ſhrink into it's Hole again.}}
  • Result:
    • 1706, [Jonathan Swift], “The Description of a Salamander. []”, in Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, London: [] John Morphew [], published 1711, →OCLC, pages 374–375:
      So vvhen the VVar has rais'd a Storm, / I've ſeen a Snake in human Form, / All ſtain'd in Infamy and Vice, / Leap from the Dunghill in a trice, / Burniſh and make a gaudy ſhovv, / Become a General, Peer, and Beau, / Till Peace hath made the Sky Serene, / Then ſhrink into it's Hole again.