A response to one of my poems, from a contemporary. |
This "ditty" was not wrote by me, but by one Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, a biting bitch, if there ever was one. Those of you in the 21st century may find it interesting to note, that it was she w...
Posted by Jonathan Swift on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:39:00 PST |
Letter to Alexander Pope September 29, 1725 |
SIR,
I CANNOT guess the reason of Mr. Stopford's management, but impute it at a venture to either haste or bashfulness, in the latter of which he is excessive to a fault, although he had already gone...
Posted by Jonathan Swift on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:54:00 PST |
Letter to a Young Poet |
Dec. 1, 1720.
SIR, I have always professed a friendship for you, and have therefore been more inquisitive into your conduct and studies than is usually agreeable to young men; so I must own I am not ...
Posted by Jonathan Swift on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:49:00 PST |
Strephon and Chloe- Sorry it is a poem, a long one, but I hope you find it amusing. |
Strephon and ChloeJonathan Swift, 1734
Of Chloe all the Town has rung; By ev’ry size of Poets sung: So beautiful a Nymph appears But once in Twenty Thousand Years. By Nature form’d with n...
Posted by Jonathan Swift on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:14:00 PST |
Stellas Birthday |
March 13th is the birthday of my dear friend, Esther Johnson, whom I called Hettie in the flesh, and Stella on paper. She was born in 1681, and we met when she was 8 years old, and I a young man...
Posted by Jonathan Swift on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:55:00 PST |
from Gullivers Travels (the voyage to lilliput section) |
Here is one of my favorite passages in my novel, Gulliver's Travels....enjoy The Reader may remember, that when I signed those Articles upon which I recovered my Liberty, there were some which I disl...
Posted by Jonathan Swift on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:18:00 PST |
A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertain the English Tongue |
A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue, in a Letter to the Most Honourable Robert Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain, Printed from Be...
Posted by Jonathan Swift on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:48:00 PST |
Who is |
The person who is behind this profile is? Really Jonathan Swift from the grave A college professor A high school student A stay at home mother of 3 Someone who works for NASA A Catholic Priest A Dipl...
Posted by Jonathan Swift on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 01:00:00 PST |
Predictions of the Year 1708 by Issac Bickerstaff, Esq |
Written to prevent the people of England from being farther imposed on by vulgar almanack-makers.
By Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq.
I have long consider'd the gross abuse of astrology in this kingdom, and up...
Posted by Jonathan Swift on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:33:00 PST |
The Place of the Damned |
All folks who pretend to religion and grace,Allow there's a HELL, but dispute of the place:But, if HELL may by logical rules be definedThe place of the damned -I'll tell you my mind.Wherever the damn...
Posted by Jonathan Swift on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:01:00 PST |
