Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 854 pages |
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Page vii
... Lord Macaulay . More- over , this struck me to be as good a form as any for re - examining the subject in all its bearings ; and now that it has become common to reprint articles in a collected shape , the comments of a first - rate ...
... Lord Macaulay . More- over , this struck me to be as good a form as any for re - examining the subject in all its bearings ; and now that it has become common to reprint articles in a collected shape , the comments of a first - rate ...
Page xii
... Lord Macaulay's Summary of Mrs. Piozzi's Treat- ment of Johnson · 262-266 Life in Italy 266-269 Projected Work on Johnson 269-270 The Florence Miscellany 271 Correspondence with Cadell and Publication of the " Anecdotes " 272-274 Her ...
... Lord Macaulay's Summary of Mrs. Piozzi's Treat- ment of Johnson · 262-266 Life in Italy 266-269 Projected Work on Johnson 269-270 The Florence Miscellany 271 Correspondence with Cadell and Publication of the " Anecdotes " 272-274 Her ...
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... Lord Macaulay , has declared to be not less decidedly the first of biographers , than Homer is the first of heroic poets , Shakspeare the first of dramatists , or Demosthenes the first of orators . The result was favourable to Boswell ...
... Lord Macaulay , has declared to be not less decidedly the first of biographers , than Homer is the first of heroic poets , Shakspeare the first of dramatists , or Demosthenes the first of orators . The result was favourable to Boswell ...
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... Lord Macaulay , he gave it as his opinion that they afforded materials for a " most interesting and durably popular volume . ” * They comprise : - 1. Autobiographical Memoirs . 2. Letters , mostly addressed to the late Sir James ...
... Lord Macaulay , he gave it as his opinion that they afforded materials for a " most interesting and durably popular volume . ” * They comprise : - 1. Autobiographical Memoirs . 2. Letters , mostly addressed to the late Sir James ...
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... Lord Macaulay thus portrays the objects of John- son's hospitality as soon as he had got a house to cover them . " It was the home of the most extraordinary assemblage of inmates that ever was brought together . At the head of the ...
... Lord Macaulay thus portrays the objects of John- son's hospitality as soon as he had got a house to cover them . " It was the home of the most extraordinary assemblage of inmates that ever was brought together . At the head of the ...
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