"'Energetic, precise and barbarous; they are the only Nation that pronounce their A as E....

[And some time afterwards] Though I cannot perfectly pronounce English, my ear is sensible of the harmony of your language and of your versification.

Pope and Dryden have the most harmony in Poetry; Addison in Prose.' [Takes now the interrogating side.] VOLTAIRE.

"'How have you liked (AVEX-VOUS TROUVE) the French ?' SHERLOCK.

"'Amiable and witty.