Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 854 pages |
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Page 15
... seems to have made a lasting impression on his hostess . Referring to a couplet in " The Vanity of Human Wishes " : : " Through all his veins the fever of renown Spreads from the strong contagion of the gown , " “ he had desired me ...
... seems to have made a lasting impression on his hostess . Referring to a couplet in " The Vanity of Human Wishes " : : " Through all his veins the fever of renown Spreads from the strong contagion of the gown , " “ he had desired me ...
Page 24
... seem to unfit him for civilised . society , including his gesticulations , his rollings , his puffings , his mutterings , and the ravenous eagerness with which he devoured his food , increased the interest which his new associates took ...
... seem to unfit him for civilised . society , including his gesticulations , his rollings , his puffings , his mutterings , and the ravenous eagerness with which he devoured his food , increased the interest which his new associates took ...
Page 49
... seem little better than a nonentity , whilst every imaginable topic was under animated discussion at his table ; for Boswell was more ready to report the husband's sayings than the wife's . In a marginal note on one of the printed ...
... seem little better than a nonentity , whilst every imaginable topic was under animated discussion at his table ; for Boswell was more ready to report the husband's sayings than the wife's . In a marginal note on one of the printed ...
Page 52
... seems not . The lines always quoted as Dryden's , beginning , ' To die is landing on some silent shore , ' are Garth's after all . " Johnson would have been still less pleased at her discovery that a line in his epitaph on Phillips ...
... seems not . The lines always quoted as Dryden's , beginning , ' To die is landing on some silent shore , ' are Garth's after all . " Johnson would have been still less pleased at her discovery that a line in his epitaph on Phillips ...
Page 64
... seems not to be a happy man , though he has every means of happiness in his power . But I think I have rarely seen a very rich man with a light heart and light spirits . " The concluding remark , coming from such a source , may supply ...
... seems not to be a happy man , though he has every means of happiness in his power . But I think I have rarely seen a very rich man with a light heart and light spirits . " The concluding remark , coming from such a source , may supply ...
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