1726 · Skopia

Showing 10 works across all media from 1726

Gulliver's Travels

1726 · 511 pages

Swift's ship's surgeon washes up among people six inches tall, then among giants, then among rational horses who find humans repulsive. Each voyage is funnier than the last and angrier about us.

★ 8.2

Satire · Travel writing

Men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent as when they are at stool.

Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels · 1726

★ 5.5

Satire · Travel writing

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.

Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels · 1726

★ 5.4

Satire · Travel writing

I said there was a society of men among us bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose that white is black and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are slaves.

Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels · 1726

★ 4.5

Satire · Travel writing

They will never allow that a child is under any obligation to his father for begetting him, or his mother for bringing him into the world - which, considering the miseries of human life, was neither a benefit in itself nor intended so by his parents, whose thoughts in their love encounters were otherwise employed.

Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels · 1726

★ 3.7

Satire · Travel writing

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.

Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels · 1726

★ 3.7

See, Winter comes to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad.

James Thomson

The Seasons: Winter · 1726

★ 3.6

Travel writing · Satire

I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.

Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels · 1726

★ 2.0

Poem

Be wise with speed; A fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Edward Young

1726

★ 1.9

Pleasure is a thief to business.

Daniel Defoe

1726

★ 1.2