Презентация на тему Jonathan Swift

of the Books

«Битве книг».

among modern authors; which is to write upon Nothing;

when the subject is utterly exhausted, to let the pen still move on; by some called the ghost of Wit, delighting to walk after the death of its body. -- Conclusion, A Tale of A Tub
And to say the truth, there seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands, than that of discerning when to have done. -- Conclusion, A Tale of A Tub
... I am wonderfully well acquainted with the present relish of courteous readers, and have often observed with singular pleasure, that a fly driven from a honey-pot will immediately, with very good appetite, alight and finish his meal on an excrement. -- Conclusion, A Tale of a Tub

Man would be old

will take advice, when they will not so much

as take warning?

for wisdom in public affairs and councils, governed by

foolish servants

was all the world and his wife.
Bread is

the staff of life

hate, but not enough to make us love one

another

give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer

and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles or AEneas. With historians it is quite the contrary; our thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors.

Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman
Better belly burst

than good liquor be lost

World by Lemuel Gulliver
http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/contents.html

II: A Voyage to Brobdingnag (1702 – 1706)
Part III:

A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi,
Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg and Japan
(1706 – 1710)
Part IV: A Voyage to the Country of the
Houyhnhnms (1710 – 1715)

in us to give the Females a different kind

of Education from the Males, except in some Articles of Domestic Management; whereby, as he truly observed, one half of our Natives were good for nothing but bringing Children into the World: And to trust the Care of our Children to such useless Animals, he said, was yet a greater Instance of Brutality. (IV:8)