 | 1850 - 638 pages
...they were not able to tell what they say ; and yet * these fine English clerks will say they speak in their mother' tongue, if a man should charge them...like as they love to go in foreign apparel, so they will ' powder their talk with over-sea language. He that cometh ' lately out of France will talk French-English,... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 528 pages
...mother tongue, if a man should charge them with counterfeiting the king's English. Some far journied gentlemen, at their return home, like as they love to go in foreign apparel, so they will ponder their talk with over-sea language. He that cometh lately out of France will talk French... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...mother tongue, if a man should charge them with counterfeiting the king's English. Some far journied gentlemen, at their return home, like as they love to go in foreign apparel, so they will ponder their talk with over-sea language. He that cometh lately out of France will talk French... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 970 pages
...mother tongue, if a man should charge them with counterfeiting the king's English. Some far journied gentlemen, at their return home, like as they love to go in foreign apparel, so they will ponder their talk with over-sea language. He that cometh lately out of France will talk French... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 646 pages
...their gowns.' And the following passage occurs in a writer of yet earlier date. ' Some far-journied gentlemen, at their return home, like as they love to go in foreign apparel, so they will powder their talk with over-sea language. He that cometh lately out of France will talk French-... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...mother tongue, if a man should charge them with counterfeiting the King's English. Some far journied gentlemen, at their return home, like as they love to go in foreign apparel, so they will powder their talk with over-sea language. He that Cometh lately out of France, will talk French-English,... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...man should charge them with counterfeiting the King's English. Some far journied gentle-men, at then- return home, like as they love to go in foreign apparel, so they will powder their talk with over-sea language. He that cometh lately out of France, will talk French-English,... | |
 | 1828 - 636 pages
...their gowns.' And the following passage occurs in a writer of yet earlier date. 'Some far-journied gentlemen, at their return home, like as they love to go in foreign apparel, so they will powder their talk with over-sea language. He that cometh lately out of France will talk French-English,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...mother tongue, if a man should charge them with counterfeiting the king's English. Some far journied allies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal ga will ponder their talk with over-sea language. He that comcth lately out of France will talk French... | |
 | Eduard Fiedler - 1850 - 768 pages
...mother tongue, if a man should charge them with counterfeiting the King's English. Some far journied gentlemen , at their return home , like as they love to go in foreign apparel, so they will ponder their talk with over-sea language. He that cometh lately out of France will talk French... | |
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English, that they forget altogether their mother's language. And I dare swear this, if some of their mothers were alive, they were not able to tell what they say : and yet these fine English clerks will say, they speak in their mother tongue, if a man... 
