[Jasmin: Barber by Samuel Smiles]@TWC D-Link bookJasmin: Barber CHAPTER XIII 22/23
'The Curl-papers of Jasmin, the Barber of Agen.' ('Las Papillotos de Jasmin, Coiffeur.') {2} 'A Pilgrimage to Auvergne, from Picardy to Velay.' 1842. {3} 'Bearn and the Pyrenees.' 1844. {4} "There are no poets in France now", he said to Miss Costello.
"There cannot be.
The language does not admit of it.
Where is the fire, the spirit, the expression, the tenderness, the force, of the Gascon? French is but the ladder to reach the first floor of the Gascon; how can you get up to a height except by means of a ladder ?" {5} Westminster Review for October, 1849. {6} Published by David Bogue, Fleet Street.1852.
Mr.Reach was very particular about the pronunciation of his name.
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