The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times / With an Introductory Chapter on the Preceding Period

by K. Rebillon Lambley

[1081] The same opinions are voiced by later writers, such as Costeker, Education of a Young Nobleman, 1723, p. 18; and the author of a pamphlet On Education, 1734.

[1082] Evelyn, Diary, Dec. 6, 1681.

[1083] The Compleat Gentleman (1728), ed. K. D. Bülbring, 1890.

[1084] Epilogue to Bellamira.

[1085] Works, ed. A. Wilson, Verity, London, 1888, Preface.

[1086] Le Blanc, Lettres d'un Français, à la Haye, 1745, ii. p. 1.

[1087] He tells Maupertuis of the great success of his De la Figure de la Terre (1738) in England, where it was awaited with impatience and received with acclamation (Lettres, ii. 244).

[1088] An Essay to revive the antient Education of Gentlewomen (Mrs. Makin or Mark Lewis).

[1089] French no doubt often reached grammar school boys indirectly. Thus Charles Hoole in 1660 (A New Discoverie of the old Art of Teaching School) recommends the Dialogues of Du Grès for their private reading; perhaps, however, he was thinking more of the Latin than of the French part.

[1090] Miscellaneous Works, 1751, pp. 320-1.