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
dog rain cat
I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.
race missing would-be
All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
games play may
A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.
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.
college dump cures
A college joke to cure the dumps.
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.
fate sick joy
This Day, whate'er the Fates decree; Shall still be kept with Joy by me: This Day then, let us not be told, That you are sick, and I grown old