Excerpt from Drawing-Room Plays, Selected and Adapted From the French MY task has been a hard one - to express French wit and sparkle in an English dress. Forgive me, Reader, if your cultured taste Think language of the period' misplaced 'pals, ' beastly, ' rotten, ' 'bosh, ' 'confound it, ' hang, ' Are, I admit, quite too too awful' slang, And if you disapprove of won't' and To the poor solecisms pardon grant. We know, of course, professors do not teach These little idioms of our Saxon speech. About the Publisher ...
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Excerpt from Drawing-Room Plays, Selected and Adapted From the French MY task has been a hard one - to express French wit and sparkle in an English dress. Forgive me, Reader, if your cultured taste Think language of the period' misplaced 'pals, ' beastly, ' rotten, ' 'bosh, ' 'confound it, ' hang, ' Are, I admit, quite too too awful' slang, And if you disapprove of won't' and To the poor solecisms pardon grant. We know, of course, professors do not teach These little idioms of our Saxon speech. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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