Publisher's Synopsis
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.
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