Jonathan Swift1667–1745Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
The Battle of the Books, preface (1704)Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.
Letter to a Young Clergyman (January 9, 1720)- Gulliver’s Travels (1726), Part IV: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms, Chapter XIIIn context
