The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers

Jonathan Swift

1729 It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex,...

Jonathan Swift

CHAPTER I. The Author gives some account of himself and family--His first inducements to travel--He is shipwrecked, and swims for his life--Gets safe on shore in the country of Lilliput--Is made a...

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift was born in 1667, on the 30th of November.

Jonathan Swift

To the Right Honourable John Lord Somers 37 The Bookseller to The Reader 41 The Epistle Dedicatory ...

Washington Irving

A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky.

Ayn Rand

PART ONE It is a sin to write this.

Aristophanes

statement is made that it may be rejected.

William Strunk

This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style.