Recueil dramatique, ou, Choix de petites pièces de théâtre : prises de Berquin avec une liste alphabétique des idiotismes qui s'y trouvent : à l'usage des étudians de la langue française

Front matter

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Preface

With respect to the moral tendency of this volume, it is perhaps sufficient to say that its contents are taken from Berquin’s 44 L’Ami des Enfans,” a work too well known to require ai y encomium at our hands, and certainly préférable to Molière’s play s, which are generally used u> ^the tuition of the French language.

^ As to the second ohject mentioned above, it is û.obvious — to us, at least — that dialogues and dramatic scenes, wherein pronouns and verbs are mostly used in the first and second persons, are

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The compiler of this volume feels it his duty to

acknowledge here, that he has altered several pas-

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sages so as to read y ou instead of thou ; that, in in other cases, he has changed the third into the second person of verbs ; omitted, altered, or added many ideas and expressions ; in short, that he has taken with his author such liberties as he deemed necessary to his purpose. It is but just, therefore, that he should be held responsible for ail the faults that may be found in this work ; and that whatever merit it may hâve should be attributed to Berquin.