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Histoire de la Littérature Anglaise (Volume 2 de 5)

Note 480 — TABLE DES MATIÈRES CONTENUES DANS LE DEUXIÈME VOLUME.

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: Quand il est simplement comique, il arrive comme Swift et Hogarth à la bizarrerie rude et drolatique: «A bishop's foot that has all his toes (maugre the gout) and a linen sock over it, is the aptest emblem of the prelat himself; who being a pluralist may, under one surplice, hide four benefices, besides that great metropolitan toe.»

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