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
cousin book order
I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called "A Voyage round the world."
kings men voting
In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.
eating lord feds
Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.
confidence tree dies
I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.
stars distance future
They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve around Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the center of the primary exactly three of his diameters, and the outermost five: the former revolves in the space of ten hours, and the latter in twenty-one and a half, so that the squares of their periodical times are very near in the same proportion with the cubes of their distances from the center of Mars; which evidently shews them to be governed by the same Law of Gravitation that influences the other heavenly bodies.
summer air august
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.
hands knives eating
They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
poppies praise infusion
All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.
games play may
A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.
men long age
Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.
life tragedy life-is
Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.
men shining company
Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.
men age criticism
If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.
beauty art height
For though, in nature, depth and height Are equally held infinite: In poetry, the height we know; 'Tis only infinite below.