Letters and conversations, selected from the best writers, for ... translating from English into French, by G.A. NeveuG A Neveu 1864 |
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Aloud Angus answered arrived Arvins asked Balzac believe bien brother c'est Caleb Charles Dickens CHAVIGNI child COMMISSARY d'une dear dinner Dombey Dombey and Son dost thou draw equerry être EVELYN exclaimed eyes fait father faut Francis Jeffrey Frédéric Soulié GEORGINA give HAGAR hand happy HARPAGON heart Henry highness hommes honor inverted J'ai jamais JOHN HAZELWOOD king Lady Davenant LADY FRANKLIN Lady Morgan letter look Lord Lord Byron Madame Madame de Sévigné maître d'hôtel majesty MASTER JAQUES ment Miss Martin monk monsieur mother n'est never old woman papa person PHILIPPE pleasure poor potatoes prince pronominal qu'il qu'on returned rien Rubens sesterces Sévigné sing SIR JOHN sire speak tell tête thee thing thought thousand sesterces Tintoretto touched tout Vintemille voilà wanted Washington Irving wish write young
Popular passages
Page 104 - And can such letters be worth showing? or can I have any spirit when so old and reduced to dictate ? Oh, my good Madam, dispense with me from such a task, and think how it must add to it to apprehend such letters being shown.
Page 113 - ... Edinburgh Review. Too much, I admit, would not do of my style ; but the proportion in which it exists enlivens the Review, if you appeal to the whole public, and not to the eight or ten grave Scotchmen with whom you live. I am a very ignorant, frivolous, half-inch person ; but, such as I am, I am sure I have done your Review good, and contributed to bring it into notice. Such as I am, I shall be, and cannot promise to alter.
Page 116 - You cannot imagine how desperately vulgar and dreary this place is ! I have not even Mrs. Tighe * to comfort me, but I expect she will be in town in a week or two. I regret very much to find that she is becoming so ' furieusement litteraire :' one used hardly to get a peep at her blue stockings, but now I am afraid she shows them up to the knee...
Page 104 - I learn comes from newspapers, that collect intelligence from coffeehouses, — consequently what I neither believe nor report. At home I see only a few charitable elders, except about fourscore nephews and nieces of various ages...
Page 114 - I am quite certain nobody would obtain more readers for his essay upon such a subject ; and I am equally certain that the principles are right, and that there is no lack of sense in it.
Page 108 - I have said, it would mortify me very severely to believe I had given you pain. If you have any amity left for me, you will not delay very long to tell me so. In the meantime, I am very sincerely yours, F. JEFFREY.
Page 113 - Heude is talked of and quoted for its fun and impertinence, when graver and abler articles are thumbed over and passed by. Almost any one of the sensible men who write for the ' Review ' would have written a much wiser and more profound article than I have done upon the Game Laws.
Page 113 - You must consider that Edinburgh is a very grave place, and that you live with philosophers who are very intolerant of nonsense. I write for the London, not for the Scotch market, and perhaps more people read my nonsense than your sense. The complaint was loud and universal of the extreme dulness and lengthiness of the Edinburgh Review.
Page 115 - English house, either in very hot or very cold weather, "is the worst. My little boy, whom you were so good as to inquire about, is quite well, and returned to Westminster. He has fought two or three battles successfully, and is at the head of his class. I hope Lord Grey liked Burden's letter to Cobbett.
Page 113 - Too much, I admit, would not do of my style ; but the proportion in which it exists enlivens the Review, if you appeal to the whole public, and not to the eight or ten grave Scotchmen with whom you live. I am a very ignorant, frivolous, half-inch person ; but, such as I am, I am sure I have done your Review good, and contributed to bring it into notice. Such as I am, I shall be, and cannot promise to alter. Such is my opinion of the effect of my articles.