Swift/description

Famous quotes containing the words swift and/or description:

“Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

“The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul’s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)