Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 854 pages |
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... passed on one whom the most formidable of his censors , 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 ...
... passed on one whom the most formidable of his censors , 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 ...
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... passed on Boswell . The materials which reached me after I had undertaken the work , and of which he was not aware , would nearly fill a volume . which the last Eighteen Hundred Years have presented to the B 3 HER LITERARY REMAINS . 5.
... passed on Boswell . The materials which reached me after I had undertaken the work , and of which he was not aware , would nearly fill a volume . which the last Eighteen Hundred Years have presented to the B 3 HER LITERARY REMAINS . 5.
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... passed current for history . They made up their differences before her death , and a Latin epitaph of the most eulogistic order from his pen is inscribed upon her tomb . It had been well for Mrs. Thrale and her guests if there had ...
... passed current for history . They made up their differences before her death , and a Latin epitaph of the most eulogistic order from his pen is inscribed upon her tomb . It had been well for Mrs. Thrale and her guests if there had ...
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... deeply interesting business to Johnson , who vehemently attacked a dish of stewed carp , using his fingers only in feeding himself . " VOL . I. C At the dinner when he passed his celebrated sentence on JOHNSON'S HABITS . 17.
... deeply interesting business to Johnson , who vehemently attacked a dish of stewed carp , using his fingers only in feeding himself . " VOL . I. C At the dinner when he passed his celebrated sentence on JOHNSON'S HABITS . 17.
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Hester Lynch Piozzi Abraham Hayward. At the dinner when he passed his celebrated sentence on the leg of mutton " That it was as bad as bad could be : ill - fed , ill - killed , ill - kept , and ill - dressed ” — the ladies , his fellow ...
Hester Lynch Piozzi Abraham Hayward. At the dinner when he passed his celebrated sentence on the leg of mutton " That it was as bad as bad could be : ill - fed , ill - killed , ill - kept , and ill - dressed ” — the ladies , his fellow ...
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