Author: Jonathan Swift

Cites

• Lucret (1)
  • IN: Tale of a Tub (1704) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Juvatque novos decerpere flores, Insignemque meo capiti petere inde coronam, Unde prius nulli velarunt tempora Muse
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
• Jonathan Swift (1)
  • IN: Gulliver's Travels (1726) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: The captain was very well satisfied with this plain narration I had given him, and said. 'he hoped I would oblige the world by putting it on paper, and making it public.' My answer was, 'that I thought we were overstocked with books of travels; that nothing could now pass which was not extraordinary; and that my story could contain little except common events'... However, I thanked him for his good opinion, and promised to take the matter into my consideration.
    FROM: Gulliver's Travels, (1726), Novel, Ireland
• NULL (3)
  • IN: A Tale of a Tub (1704) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Bafima eacabasa eanaa irraurifta, diarba da caeotaba fobor camelanthi.
    FROM: Iren. Lib. I. C. 18, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: A tale of a tub. Written for the universal improvement of mankind. To which is added, an account of a battel between the antient and modern books in St. James's library. (1704) Book, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Bafima eacabafa eanaa irraurifta, diarba da caeotaba fobor camelanthi
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
• Lucr. (1)
  • IN: A Tale of a Tub (1704) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Juvatque novos decevpere flores, Infignemque meo capiti peteve inde coronam, Unde prius nulli velarunt tempora Muse.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Lucretius (1)
  • IN: A tale of a tub. Written for the universal improvement of mankind. To which is added, an account of a battel between the antient and modern books in St. James's library. (1704) Book, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Juvatque novos decerpore flores, Insignemque meo capiti potere inde coronam, Unde prius nulli tempora Musae
    FROM: De Rerum Natura, Book 1, (-50), Poem, Italy

Cited by

• Margaret Atwood (1)
  • IN: The Handmaid's Tale (1998) Utopian and Dystopian Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: "But as to myself, having been wearied out for many years with offering vain, idle, visionary thoughts, and at length utterly despairing of success, I fortunately fell upon this proposal... "
    FROM: A Modest Proposal, (1729), Essay, Ireland
• D.J. Enright (1)
  • IN: Old Men and Comets (1993) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.
    FROM: Thoughts on Various Subjects, (1706), Essay, Ireland
• Jonathan Swift (1)
  • IN: Gulliver's Travels (1726) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: The captain was very well satisfied with this plain narration I had given him, and said. 'he hoped I would oblige the world by putting it on paper, and making it public.' My answer was, 'that I thought we were overstocked with books of travels; that nothing could now pass which was not extraordinary; and that my story could contain little except common events'... However, I thanked him for his good opinion, and promised to take the matter into my consideration.
    FROM: Gulliver's Travels, (1726), Novel, Ireland
• Jonathan Kellerman (1)
  • IN: Time Bomb (1990) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together.
    FROM: Gulliver's Travels, (1726), Novel, Ireland
• Robert Sawyer (1)
  • IN: Rollback (2007) Novel, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: No wise man ever wished to be younger.
    FROM: Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies, (1706), Essay, Ireland
• Jane Harvey (1)
  • IN: The Ambassador's Secretary (1828) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of a spider.
    FROM: The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, (1741), Book, Ireland
• R. Zamora Linmark (1)
  • IN: Leche (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Resist -- a plot is brought home -- The tour.
    FROM: Gulliver's Travels, (1726), Novel, Ireland
• Howard Jacobson (1)
  • IN: Pussy (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: How is it possible to expect that Mankind will take Advice, when they will not so much as take Warning?
    FROM: Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting, (1706), Essay, Ireland
• John Kennedy Toole (1)
  • IN: A Confederacy of DUNCES (1980) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
    FROM: "Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting", (1706), Essay, US
• Philip Roth (1)
  • IN: Our Gang (1971) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And I remember frequent Discourses with my Master concerning the Nature of Manhood, in other Parts of the World; having Occasion to talk of Lying, and false Representation, it was with much Difficulty that he comprehended what I meant; althought he had otherwise a most acute Judgment. For he argued them; That the Use of Speech was to make us understand one another, and to receive Information of Facts; now if anyone said the Thing which was not, these Ends were defeated; because I cannot properly be said to understand him; and I am so far from receiving Information, that he leaves me worse than in Ignorance; for I am led to believe a Thing Black when it is White, and Short when it is Long. And these were all the Notions he had concerning that Faculty of Lying, so perfectly well understood, and so universally practised among human Creatures.
    FROM: A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms, (1726), Novel, US