Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 854 pages |
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... good poet . A schoolboy's exercise may be a pretty thing for a schoolboy , but it is no treat to a man . " . - Maxwell's Collectanea . possible . Mr. Murphy brought him back to us again 12 LIFE AND WRITINGS OF MRS . PIOZZI .
... good poet . A schoolboy's exercise may be a pretty thing for a schoolboy , but it is no treat to a man . " . - Maxwell's Collectanea . possible . Mr. Murphy brought him back to us again 12 LIFE AND WRITINGS OF MRS . PIOZZI .
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... things he did fear ) , and by ingrained ineradicable disease . When Boswell speaks of his " striving against evil , " " Ay , ” she writes in the margin , " and against the King's evil . " 66 If his early familiarity with all the ...
... things he did fear ) , and by ingrained ineradicable disease . When Boswell speaks of his " striving against evil , " " Ay , ” she writes in the margin , " and against the King's evil . " 66 If his early familiarity with all the ...
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... things of which he was entitled to speak from personal experience as con- fidently as of any other moral or social topics . He told Mrs. Thrale , without the smallest consciousness of presumption or what Mr. Square would term the un ...
... things of which he was entitled to speak from personal experience as con- fidently as of any other moral or social topics . He told Mrs. Thrale , without the smallest consciousness of presumption or what Mr. Square would term the un ...
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... thing in which they might take part . " Mrs. Thrale relates an amusing instance of Johnson's adroitness in escaping from the dilemma : " As we had been saying one day that no subject failed of receiving dignity from the manner in which ...
... thing in which they might take part . " Mrs. Thrale relates an amusing instance of Johnson's adroitness in escaping from the dilemma : " As we had been saying one day that no subject failed of receiving dignity from the manner in which ...
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... thing to please thy taste . A curious fowl and sparagrass I chose ; ( For I remember you were fond of those :) Three shillings cost the first , the last seven groats ; Sullen you turn from both , and call for OATS . ' 6 He laughed , and ...
... thing to please thy taste . A curious fowl and sparagrass I chose ; ( For I remember you were fond of those :) Three shillings cost the first , the last seven groats ; Sullen you turn from both , and call for OATS . ' 6 He laughed , and ...
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