Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swiftwas an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth30 November 1667
CountryIreland
birthday people soul
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
mistake coffee voice
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
understanding together world
Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.
bewitched last protest sparing took water
Indeed, Madame, your ladyship is very sparing of your tea; I protest the last I took was no more than water bewitched
writing light rising
Then, rising with Aurora's light, The Muse invoked, sit down to write; Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline.
adversity ease firsts
In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.
men years ease
A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.
men shining half
Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.
running style term
The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms.
daughter praise
Praise is the daughter of present power.