gallicisms

The best and latest, the Rev.Mr. Foster’s, which is diffuse and verbose, and Mr.G. Moir Bussey’s, which is a re - correction, abound in gallicisms of style and idiom; and one and all degrade a chef d’oeuvre of the highest anthropological and ethnographical interest and importance to a mere fairy book, a nice present for little boys.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The preface begins by describing it as ‘A choice of familiar dialogues, clean of gallicisms, and despoiled phrases, it was missing yet to studious portuguese and brazilian Youth,’ and ends with ‘We expect then, who the little book (for the care what we wrote him, and for her typographical correction) that may be worth the acceptance of the studious persons, and specially the Youth, at which we dedicate him particularly.’

16 posts from March 2010 2010

The preface begins by describing it as ‘A choice of familiar dialogues, clean of gallicisms, and despoiled phrases, it was missing yet to studious portuguese and brazilian Youth,’ and ends with ‘We expect then, who the little book (for the care what we wrote him, and for her typographical correction) that may be worth the acceptance of the studious persons, and specially the Youth, at which we dedicate him particularly.’

Of phrasebooks, battleship lieutenants and lightning-struck postillions 2010

The preface begins by describing it as ‘A choice of familiar dialogues, clean of gallicisms, and despoiled phrases, it was missing yet to studious portuguese and brazilian Youth,’ and ends with ‘We expect then, who the little book (for the care what we wrote him, and for her typographical correction) that may be worth the acceptance of the studious persons, and specially the Youth, at which we dedicate him particularly.’

Of phrasebooks, battleship lieutenants and lightning-struck postillions 2010

I admired, as we must in all that Mr. James has written, the finished workmanship in which there is no loss of vigor; the luminous and uncommon use of words, the originality of phrase, the whole clear and beautiful style, which I confess I weakly liked the better for the occasional gallicisms remaining from an inveterate habit of French.

Henry James 2003

I admired, as we must in all that Mr. James has written, the finished workmanship in which there is no loss of vigor; the luminous and uncommon use of words, the originality of phrase, the whole clear and beautiful style, which I confess I weakly liked the better for the occasional gallicisms remaining from an inveterate habit of French.

Henry James 2003

The translation reads well, in spite of a number of perhaps misleading archaisms or gallicisms, such as 'luxury' for 'lust' (luxure) and 'inconsequent' for 'inconsistent' (inconséquent).

King Phallus Weightman, John 1965

"Do not bother your head about gallicisms," I used to say to him.

Youth and Egolatry P��o Baroja 1914

A great number of idioms, that seem to be pure gallicisms, are found, in spite of the deliberate effort, referred to above, to eliminate French forms.

Frederic Mistral Downer, Charles A 1901

I admired, as we must in all that Mr. James has written, the finished workmanship in which there is no loss of vigor; the luminous and uncommon use of words, the originality of phrase, the whole clear and beautiful style, which I confess I weakly liked the better for the occasional gallicisms remaining from an inveterate habit of French.

Henry James, Jr. William Dean Howells 1878