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Just for the fun, a little scribouillage to Gulliver’s father.   “A Jonathan Swift in London, Maiden Lane, at the White perruke, Covent garden   Sir, You will be surprised in receiving an English essay from a French traveller. Pray, forgive an admirer of you who ows to y r writings the love he bears to y r   language which as betray’d him into the rash attempt of writing in English.[ V. a écrit un “Essay upon the civil wars of France…the epick poetry of the European’s nations from Homer to Milton”, paru le 6 decembre] You will see...