Compare and contrast Samuel Pepys's style in his diary entries with Jonathan Swift's style in Gulliver's Travels.

A
comparison of a section of a description of a place in both Samuel Pepys's diaries and 's
will illustrate differences and likenesses between the two authors'
styles.

A section of Pepys's diary, from September 7, 1665, recounting his
visit to Swakeley's estate is as follows:

A very pleasant
place, bought by him of Sir James Harringtons lady. He took us up and down with great respect,
and showed us all his house and grounds; and it is a place not very moderne in the garden nor
house, but the most uniforme in all that ever I saw; and some things to excess. Pretty to see
over the screene of the hall (put up by Sir J. Harrington, a Long Parliamentman) the Kings head,
and my Lord of Essex on one side, and Fairfax on the other; and upon the other side of the
screene, the parson of the parish, and the lord of the manor and his sisters. The window-cases,
door-cases, and chimnys of all the house are marble.

A
section from Gulliver's account of his time in...