Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 854 pages |
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Page 21
... received for fees crusts of bread , bits of bacon , glasses of gin , and sometimes a little copper , completed this menagerie . ” † Mrs. Williams was the daughter of a physician , and of a good Welsh family , who did not leave her depen ...
... received for fees crusts of bread , bits of bacon , glasses of gin , and sometimes a little copper , completed this menagerie . ” † Mrs. Williams was the daughter of a physician , and of a good Welsh family , who did not leave her depen ...
Page 34
... receiving dignity from the manner in which Mr. Johnson treated it , a lady at my house said , she would make him talk about love ; and took her measures accordingly , deriding the novels of the day because they treated about love . It ...
... receiving dignity from the manner in which Mr. Johnson treated it , a lady at my house said , she would make him talk about love ; and took her measures accordingly , deriding the novels of the day because they treated about love . It ...
Page 50
... received and profited by an Univer- sity education , but she could appreciate a classical allusion or quotation , and translate off - hand a Latin epigram . " Mary Aston , " said Johnson , " was a beauty and a scholar , and a wit and a ...
... received and profited by an Univer- sity education , but she could appreciate a classical allusion or quotation , and translate off - hand a Latin epigram . " Mary Aston , " said Johnson , " was a beauty and a scholar , and a wit and a ...
Page 60
... received me , taking both my hands , and with mixed politeness and cordiality welcomed me to Streatham . She led me into the house , and addressed herself almost wholly for a few minutes to my father , as if to give me an assurance she ...
... received me , taking both my hands , and with mixed politeness and cordiality welcomed me to Streatham . She led me into the house , and addressed herself almost wholly for a few minutes to my father , as if to give me an assurance she ...
Page 80
... received for answer , that in the first place , the company were shut in with him there ; and could not escape , as out of a room ; in the next place , he heard all that was said in a carriage , where it was my turn to be deaf ; and ...
... received for answer , that in the first place , the company were shut in with him there ; and could not escape , as out of a room ; in the next place , he heard all that was said in a carriage , where it was my turn to be deaf ; and ...
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