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20 décembre 2012
- doi: 10.4000/books.puc.360
- isbn: 9782841331598
- eisbn: 9782841334568
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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satire Lumières littérature irlandaise littérature de langue anglaise Literature, British Isles LIT004120 DSBSujets proches
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Anne Mulhall, « Gulliver’s Travels and the Language Debates of Swift’s Time », Presses universitaires de Caen, ID : 10.4000/books.puc.360
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In a sermon delivered at the funeral of John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury, Gilbert Burnet praises the churchman’s facility with language: Together with the Pomp of Words he did also cut off all Superfluities and needless Enlargements: he said what was just necessary to give clear Ideas of things, no more … the whole Thread was of a piece, plain and distinct. No affectations of Learning, no squeezing of Texts, no superficial Strains, no false Thoughts nor bold Flights, all was solid and...