 | Horace Walpole - 1837 - 462 páginas
...Conway and Mr. Gray, resided three months at Rheims, principally to acquire the French language. [Or.] You must not wonder if all my letters resemble dictionaries,...aloud at breakfast, and by chewing the title-pages of all my English books. Besides this, I have paraphrased half the first act of your new Gustavus, which... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 596 páginas
...you one of their vaudevilles or ballads,' which they sing at the comedy after their petites pieces. You must not wonder if all my letters resemble dictionaries,...aloud at breakfast, and by chewing the title-pages of all my English books. Besides this, I have paraphrased half of the first act of your new Gustavus,d... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 592 páginas
...you one of their vaudevilles or ballads,0 which they sing at the comedy after their petites pieces. You must not wonder if all my letters resemble dictionaries,...aloud at breakfast, and by chewing the title-pages of all my English books. Besides this, I have paraphrased half of the first act of your new Gustavus,d... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1851 - 574 páginas
...wonder if all his letters resembled dictionaries, with French on "one side, and English on the other. " I deal in nothing else at present, and talk a couple...each language alternately, from morning till night." In one of his letters he very dramatically describes the unexpected appearance amongst them of a wild... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1851 - 582 páginas
...wonder if all his letters resembled dictionaries, with French on one side, and English on the other. " I deal in nothing else at present, and talk a couple...each language alternately, from morning till night." In one of his letters he very dramatically describes the unexpected appearance amongst them of a wild... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1857 - 576 páginas
...containing an account of Rheims, is printed in his Works [by Mitford], vol. ii. p. 50. — WEIOHT. at present, and talk a couple of words of each language...aloud at breakfast, and by chewing the title-pages of all my English books. Besides this, I have paraphrased half the iirst act of your new ' Gustavus,11... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1857 - 586 páginas
...you one of their vaudevilles or ballads,3 which they sing at the comedy after their petites pieces. You must not wonder if all my letters resemble dictionaries,...side and English on t'other ; I deal in nothing else 1 From Paris, after a stay of about two months, we went with my cousin, Henry Con1vay, to Rheims, in... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1861 - 580 páginas
...containing an account of Rheims, is printed in hia Works [by Mitford], vol. ii. p. 50. — WRIOHT. at present, and talk a couple of words of each language...till night. This has put my mouth a little out of tuao at present ; but I am trying to recover the use of it by reading the newspapers aloud at breakfast,... | |
 | 1876 - 612 páginas
...stayed three months to learn French : — ' You must not wonder ' (he writes from Rheinis to West) ' if all my letters resemble dictionaries with French...of words of each language alternately from morning to night.' On quitting Rheims they crossed the Alps at Mont Cenis, and proceeded to Genoa, Parma, Placentia,... | |
 | 1876 - 612 páginas
...they stayed three months to learn French:— 'You must not wonder' (he writes from Eheims to West) ' if all my letters resemble dictionaries with French...of words of each language alternately from morning to night.' On quitting Rheims they crossed the Alps at Mont Cenis, and proceeded to Genoa, Parma, Placentia,... | |
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You must not wonder if all my letters resemble dictionaries, with French on one side, and English on t'other ; I deal in nothing else at present, and talk a couple of words of each language alternately from morning till night. This has put my mouth a... 
