Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 854 pages |
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Page 30
... feel how he could impose restraint , and as it were searching his mind for a still more ludicrous word , he slowly pro- nounced , ' I say the woman was fundamentally sen- sible ; ' as if he had said , Hear this now , and laugh if you ...
... feel how he could impose restraint , and as it were searching his mind for a still more ludicrous word , he slowly pro- nounced , ' I say the woman was fundamentally sen- sible ; ' as if he had said , Hear this now , and laugh if you ...
Page 34
... feel — a passion which has caused the change of empires , and the loss of worlds- a passion which has inspired heroism and subdued avarice . ' He thought he had already said too much . 6 A passion , in short , ' added he , with an ...
... feel — a passion which has caused the change of empires , and the loss of worlds- a passion which has inspired heroism and subdued avarice . ' He thought he had already said too much . 6 A passion , in short , ' added he , with an ...
Page 39
... feeling , and in the hope of securing to herself the benefit of the doubt , Mrs. Thrale omitted in the " Anecdotes " the year when these verses were addressed to her , and a sharp contro- versy has been raised as to the respective ages ...
... feeling , and in the hope of securing to herself the benefit of the doubt , Mrs. Thrale omitted in the " Anecdotes " the year when these verses were addressed to her , and a sharp contro- versy has been raised as to the respective ages ...
Page 48
... feeling of irri- tation . Opposite Boswell's account of this incident she has written , " Was he not right in hating to be so treated ? and would he not have been right to have loved me better than any of them , because I 48 LIFE AND ...
... feeling of irri- tation . Opposite Boswell's account of this incident she has written , " Was he not right in hating to be so treated ? and would he not have been right to have loved me better than any of them , because I 48 LIFE AND ...
Page 71
... feel quite sure that Johnson's support might not an incumbrance than a help . " His lordship perhaps thought , and not unreasonably , that , like the elephant sometimes prove rather Miss Lætitia Matilda Hawkins vouches for this story ...
... feel quite sure that Johnson's support might not an incumbrance than a help . " His lordship perhaps thought , and not unreasonably , that , like the elephant sometimes prove rather Miss Lætitia Matilda Hawkins vouches for this story ...
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