Swift’s imaginary voyages test claims to knowledge and authority. The selected scenes contrast useful work with elaborate schemes; attend to Gulliver and his hosts before reading their remarks as direct advice.
Verses occasioned by Whitshed's Motto on his Coach
Cassinus and Peter
Cadenus and Vanessa
My Lady's Lamentation
Gulliver's Travels
Tale of a Tub
Brother Protestants
Battle of the Books
Thoughts on Various Subjects
Letter to Miss Vanbromrigh, Aug
Letter to Bolingbroke, March 21, 1729
Introduction to Polite Conversation
Polite Conversation
Scott's Life of Swift
Age · anthology attribution: Swift
Business · anthology attribution: Swift
Company · anthology attribution: Swift
Flattery · anthology attribution: Swift
Freedom · anthology attribution: Swift
Manners · anthology attribution: Swift
Money · anthology attribution: Swift
Travel · anthology attribution: Swift
Zeal · anthology attribution: Swift
Printed citation: Swift
Number 394 · printed citation: Swift
Number 1376 · printed citation: Swift
Page 35 · printed citation: Swift · subject: Cant
Page 39 · printed citation: Swift · subject: Cheerfulness
Life and writing
The catalogue identifies Jonathan Swift and gives his lifetime as 1667–1745. The linked work presents itself through travel papers attributed to Lemuel Gulliver, including a publisher’s address and a letter from the captain. That fictional framing matters: the speaking traveller is not simply Swift delivering personal instructions. The electronic text credits David Price, but the checked record does not establish its underlying printed edition. Its release and update dates belong to the digital publication, not to the selected sentences or Swift’s lifetime.
In Part II, Chapter VII, Gulliver reports the king of Brobdingnag’s preference for useful agricultural improvement over political intrigue. The judgement comes from the king within Gulliver’s account. In Part III, Chapter V, the visitor describes a projector at the academy of Lagado who hopes to obtain sunshine from cucumbers and asks for money to continue. The two intact extracts match the linked English text under punctuation, case and spacing comparison. Read their contrasts as scenes of satire, not as agronomic evidence or a blanket rejection of inquiry.
Read Part II, Chapter VII beside Part III, Chapter V. Ask who speaks, what Gulliver finds admirable, and how each scene treats useful knowledge. The complete selected English extracts match the checked transcription under limited normalization. Their narrative setting qualifies detached advice; the connection does not verify every Swift-labelled record or establish the original printed edition behind this digital text.
Subjects to explore
Editorial reading connections, distinct from the archive’s word matching.
Gulliver's Travels. Part iii. Chap. v. Voyage to Laputa.
Profile sources and editorial status
Original agent-assisted editorial profile, checked 2026-10-05. No human review is recorded. Life dates are recorded to the year; they do not date individual quotations.
Checked identity/lifetime, specific digital edition/HTML ISBN and US-public-domain basis. Automatic synopsis and digital dates do not establish quotation wording or composition dates. Reference checked 2026-10-05.
Complete selected English extracts, adjacent speaker/context and available edition credits checked. Limited normalization; no whole-corpus authentication or human review. Reference checked 2026-10-05.
Project Gutenberg English electronic transcription; original printed edition not identified in the checked record; David Price credited; catalogue HTML ISBN
Related work by the same author; the linked edition is separate from the anthology source.