 With the French and Spanish languages I am familiarly conversant, so as to speak them correctly, and write them with as much ease and fluency as I do the English. The Portuguese I read without difficulty. And with regard to my proficiency in the Italian,...  Old Cambridge - Page 106by Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1899 - 203 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Longfellow - Authors, American - 1886 - 478 pages
...have received a good education. I know you cannot be dissatisfied with the progress I have made in iny studies. I speak honestly, not boastingly. With the...days for Dresden. I do not wish to return without a competent knowledge of German ; and all that I can do to acquire it shall be done. The time is short,... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow - Poets, American - 1886 - 480 pages
...goodness, I have received a good education. I know you cannot be dissatisfied with the progress I have made in my studies. I speak honestly, not boastingly....I intend leaving Venice in a few days for Dresden. 1 do not wish to return without a competent knowledge of German ; and all that I can do to acquire... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow - Authors, American - 1886 - 472 pages
...goodness, I have received a good education. I know you cannot be dissatisfied with the progress I have made in my studies. I speak honestly, not boastingly....I intend leaving Venice in a few days for Dresden. 1 do not wish to return without a competent knowledge of German; and all that I can do to acquire it... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - Heaven - 1886 - 468 pages
...protract my nightly vigil till the morning star is in the sky." At the end of the year he could say : " With regard to my proficiency in the Italian, I have...for an Italian until I told them I was an American." It was at this time, then, that he made his first acquaintance with a master who was to be dominant... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 466 pages
...the morning star is in the sky." At the end of the year he eould say : "With regard to my profieieney in the Italian, I have only to say that all at the...took me for an Italian until I told them I was an Ameriean." larly intimate, coming to him indeed as something more than an intellectual companion. While... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow - Authors, American - 1891 - 494 pages
...goodness, I have received a good education. I know you cannot be dissatisfied with the progress I have made in my studies. I speak honestly, not boastingly....days for Dresden. I do not wish to return without a competent knowledge of German ; and all that I can do to acquire it shall be done. The time is short,... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow - Authors, American - 1891 - 492 pages
...have made in my studies. I speak honestly, not boastingly. With the French and Spanish languages 1 am. familiarly conversant, so as to speak them correctly,...days for Dresden. I do not wish to return without a competent knowledge of German; and all that I can do to acquire it shall be done. The time is short,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1892 - 462 pages
...protract my nightly vigil till the morning star is in the sky." At the end of the year he could say : " With regard to my proficiency in the Italian, I have...for an Italian until I told them I was an American." It was at this time, then, that he made his first acquaintance with a master who was to be dominant... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - Heaven - 1895 - 464 pages
...protract my nightly vigil till the morning star is in the sky." At the end of the year he could say: " With regard to my proficiency in the Italian, I have...where I lodge took me for an Italian until I told them 1 was an American." larly intimate, coming to him indeed as something more than an intellectual companion.... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1904 - 524 pages
...protract my nightly vigil till the morning star is in the sky." At the end of the year he could say : " With regard to my proficiency in the Italian, I have...for an Italian until I told them I was an American." It was at this time, then, that he made his first acquaintance with a master who was to be dominant... | |
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