Museum of Wonders, or Curiosities of the World

A cabinet of curiosities in book form, 1890: monsters of the ancient world, wild animals, queer wanderers in the vasty deep, famous inventions and sublime scenery — assembled to astonish the young and, the preface admits, their elders too.

Jonathan Swift

2 pages in this part of Museum of Wonders.

Jonathan Swift (Story of Birds)

NCE came to our fields a pair of birds that had never built a nest nor seen a winter. O, how beautiful was everything! The fields were full…

Jonathan Swift (E whom she loves is far away)

5 E whom she loves is far away From her and summer trees; Daily he toils by dying beds, Whose woe God only sees.

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