"Conservatoire" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... by Lord Reckage, arrived in London the following Wednesday. Pensee and Brigit went from St. Malo to Paris, where the unhappy girl hoped to enter the Conservatoire. All had been arranged by Robert himself, and he had shown a calmness during the ordeal which might have deceived his two friends had they been even a little insincere themselves or a shade less fond. His Journal at that period contains ...
— Robert Orange - Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange • John Oliver Hobbes
... Reading at sight was a fresh experience. She corrected his fingering while helping fill out his conversational vocabulary. It was certainly most agreeable to have Fraeulein take his fingers in her warm, plump, flexible hand with conscientious authority and show him the method of the Dresden Conservatoire. ...
— Villa Elsa - A Story of German Family Life • Stuart Henry
... incomparable for his knowledge of the city and unwearying in friendly service, made us free of the green-room of the Francais, where, on the birthday of Moliere, we saw his "Don Juan" revived. At the Conservatoire we witnessed the masterly teaching of Samson; at the Odeon saw a new play by Ponsard, done but indifferently; at the Varietes "Gentil-Bernard," with four grisettes as if stepped out of a picture by Watteau; at the Gymnase "Clarisse Harlowe," with a death-scene ...
— The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster |
