Jonathan Swift Quotes About Moon

Quotes about: Moon

• I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence.

  Jonathan Swift

  Moon, World, Passages

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.618

• I with borrow'd silver shine,
  What you see is none of mine.
  First I show you but a quarter,
  Like the bow that guards the Tartar:
  Then the half, and then the whole,
  Ever dancing round the pole.

  Jonathan Swift

  Moon, Dancing, Shining

  Jonathan Swift (1841). “The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe. -London, Washbourne 1841”, p.742

• I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

  Jonathan Swift

  Moon, Advice, Forget

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous essays”, p.432

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