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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

3135 Jonathan Swift 1667-1745 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:3135
AUTHOR:Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
QUOTATION:He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.
ATTRIBUTION:Gulliver’s Travels. Part iii. Chap. v. Voyage to Laputa.