 | John Richetti - 2005 - 974 páginas
...after the publication of the Travels, Swift relays the story of an Irish bishop who concluded that the book 'was full of improbable lies, and for his part he hardly believed a word of it'. It is not the fatuousness of the bishop in even considering so obviously contrived material as improbable... | |
 | Baudouin Millet - 2007 - 422 páginas
...Alexander Pope pour se moquer de la crédulité supposée d'un évêque irlandais: «A Bishop here said, that Book was full of improbable lies, and for his part, he hardly believed a word of it»24. Ces jeux sur la naïveté de certains lecteurs ont sans doute une portée satirique: «[they... | |
 | A. W. Ward - 1967 - 436 páginas
...its verisimilitude to believe that the incidents told really occurred. One Irish bishop said that it was full of improbable lies, and, for his part, he hardly believed a word of it. The scheme of the book has been known to us all from our childhood. In the first part, Gulliver describes,... | |
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A Bishop here said that book was full of improbable lies, and for his part, he hardly believed a word of it; and so much for Gulliver. 
