Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
Born in Dublin, Ireland. He studied at Dublin, moved to England, wrote A Tale of a Tub (1704) and Gulliver’s Travels (1726), The Drapier’s Letter (1724), A Modest Proposal (1729).
I could only look upwards; the sun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes. I heard a confused noise about me; but in the posture I lay, could see nothing except the sky. In a little time I felt something alive moving on my left leg, which advancing gently forward over my breast, came almost up to my chin; when, bending my eyes downwards as much as I could, I perceived it to be a human creature not six inches high, with a bow and arrow in his hands, and a quiver at his back.
