And, from the same book as my last query, could someone help me with this French quote, please? ... including the name of the author.
_La découverte d’un mets nouveau fait plus pour le bonheur du genre
humain que la découverte d’une étoile._—BRILLAT-SAVARIN.
Peter
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- April 21st, 2024, 6:25 am
- Forum: Need Help? Got Advice?
- Topic: Pronunciation help: all languages
- Replies: 565
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- April 21st, 2024, 12:05 am
- Forum: Completed Projects
- Topic: [COMPLETE] Wonderful London - Anonymous-ans
- Replies: 153
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Re: [COMPLETE] Wonderful London - Anonymous-ans
Thanks, Anne; and that's a lovely cover.
Peter
Peter
- April 20th, 2024, 3:38 am
- Forum: Completed Projects
- Topic: [COMPLETE] Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese - Reid-ans
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Re: [SOLO] Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese - Reid-ans
And here's chapter 8, Dr Johnson's Homes and Haunts, the shortest so far, at under three minutes. It mentions him living in Gough Square. Looking at the map, Gough Square, where Johnson spent part of his life, seems to be in an area that I've never wandered round. I'll have a look today or tomorrow....
- April 19th, 2024, 1:31 pm
- Forum: Completed Projects
- Topic: [COMPLETE] Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese - Reid-ans
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Re: [SOLO] Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese - Reid-ans
Thanks, Laura. I hadn't realised we were both talking about the same anecdote! I've uploaded chapter 7 - Club Life at the 'Cheese' But I've no idea of what was meant by the line "If Fashion's forms its current freeze..." in "Envoi" at about 1430, so I may have the emphasis/intona...
- April 19th, 2024, 7:32 am
- Forum: Need Help? Got Advice?
- Topic: Pronunciation help: all languages
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Re: Pronunciation help: all languages
Thanks, Sonia; I've PM'd you my attempt.
Peter
Peter
- April 19th, 2024, 3:08 am
- Forum: Need Help? Got Advice?
- Topic: Pronunciation help: all languages
- Replies: 565
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German phrase
Could someone help me with the pronunciation of "Ein Guter Trunk Machtalte Jung", please?
Peter
Peter
- April 15th, 2024, 7:23 am
- Forum: Completed Projects
- Topic: COMPLETE [Fortnightly Poetry] The Eagle and the Flower by Charles Hamilton Musgrove - dl
- Replies: 34
- Views: 1190
Re: [Fortnightly Poetry] The Eagle and the Flower by Charles Hamilton Musgrove - dl
Here you go. An odd last line .... it feels much less sensitive than the rest of the poem.
https://librivox.org/uploads/aradlaw/eagleandtheflower_musgrove_py_128kb.mp3
(1.40)
Peter
https://librivox.org/uploads/aradlaw/eagleandtheflower_musgrove_py_128kb.mp3
(1.40)
Peter
- April 11th, 2024, 10:23 pm
- Forum: Readers Wanted: Dramatic Works
- Topic: Play Suggestions
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Re: Play Suggestions
I'd like to suggest "The Watched Pot", a three act play by Saki. The only problem is the date of the copy on archive.org, but it looks okay to me. Wikipedia link for play: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Watched_Pot Text of play is in ... The Novels and Plays of Saki, Vol. 1 Source: http...
- April 10th, 2024, 8:18 am
- Forum: Completed Projects
- Topic: [COMPLETE] Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese - Reid-ans
- Replies: 62
- Views: 2216
Re: [SOLO] Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese - Reid-ans
Thanks for catching that, Laura. Chapter six has been edited and re-uploaded.
I think my favourite was the manageress's "Only two gentlemen making a few masonic signs under the table".
Peter
I think my favourite was the manageress's "Only two gentlemen making a few masonic signs under the table".
Peter
- April 10th, 2024, 3:33 am
- Forum: Completed Projects
- Topic: [COMPLETE] Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese - Reid-ans
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- Views: 2216
Re: [SOLO] Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese - Reid-ans
Thanks, Laura; I've uploaded chapter six. The quotes aren't as funny in the cold light of day as they would be beside the Cheese fire!
Peter
Peter
- April 8th, 2024, 9:18 am
- Forum: Completed Projects
- Topic: [COMPLETE] Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese - Reid-ans
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Re: [SOLO] Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese - Reid-ans
Laura; I've uploaded chapter five. The pudding's contents are uncomfortable these days. I had sort of assumed that it would be steak and kidney.
Peter
Peter
- April 6th, 2024, 11:24 am
- Forum: Book Suggestions
- Topic: Ambulance driving, WWI
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- Views: 374
Ambulance driving, WWI
Ambulance 464 (the author was driving an ambulance during world war I in Verdun and the Argonne https://archive.org/details/55311000R.nlm.nih.gov/mode/2up Published 1918 The wikipedia article on the author is interesting:- Author Julien H. Bryan (1899-1974) - and so, still in copyright in Life+70 co...
- April 6th, 2024, 8:32 am
- Forum: Completed Projects
- Topic: [COMPLETE] Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese - Reid-ans
- Replies: 62
- Views: 2216
Re: [SOLO] Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese - Reid-ans
Thanks, Laura; I've edited chapter four and re-uploaded. I think you're right about Sundays ... remember in Wonderful London, there was a chapter about the rag-fairs in Shoreditch, with diamond selling in a couple of pubs, which the author mentioned must have been illegal but ignored by the authorit...
- April 5th, 2024, 1:11 am
- Forum: Completed Projects
- Topic: [COMPLETE] Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese - Reid-ans
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- Views: 2216
Re: [SOLO] Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese - Reid-ans
Thanks, Laura; I've uploaded chapter four. There's an interesting little essay from a middle/upper class lady being exposed to The Cheese.
I've corrected a typo at 12.05: "hard cushionless sets" I've recorded as 'seats'.
Peter
I've corrected a typo at 12.05: "hard cushionless sets" I've recorded as 'seats'.
Peter
- April 2nd, 2024, 11:51 am
- Forum: Completed Projects
- Topic: [COMPLETE] Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese - Reid-ans
- Replies: 62
- Views: 2216
Re: [SOLO] Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese - Reid-ans
I'm sorry to have missed doing the intro properly; author added, chapter 3 uploaded.
Peter
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