Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 854 pages |
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... writes : " No , no ! Mr. Thrale's manners presented the character of a gay man of the town : like Millamant , in Congreve's comedy , he ab- horred the country and everything in it . " In " Thraliana " after a corresponding statement ...
... writes : " No , no ! Mr. Thrale's manners presented the character of a gay man of the town : like Millamant , in Congreve's comedy , he ab- horred the country and everything in it . " In " Thraliana " after a corresponding statement ...
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... writes : " it was suggested by Mr. Thrale , not by his wife . " In general his wigs were very shabby , and their fore- parts were burned away by the near approach of the candle , which his short - sightedness rendered necessary in ...
... writes : " it was suggested by Mr. Thrale , not by his wife . " In general his wigs were very shabby , and their fore- parts were burned away by the near approach of the candle , which his short - sightedness rendered necessary in ...
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... writes in the margin , " and against the King's evil . " 66 If his early familiarity with all the miseries of desti- tution , aggravated by disease , had increased his natural roughness and irritability , on the other hand it had helped ...
... writes in the margin , " and against the King's evil . " 66 If his early familiarity with all the miseries of desti- tution , aggravated by disease , had increased his natural roughness and irritability , on the other hand it had helped ...
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... write Pope's Life , you would wish to know about him . ' Johnson . Wish ! why yes . If it rained knowledge , I'd hold out my hand ; but I would not give myself the trouble to go in quest of it . ' There was no arguing with him at the ...
... write Pope's Life , you would wish to know about him . ' Johnson . Wish ! why yes . If it rained knowledge , I'd hold out my hand ; but I would not give myself the trouble to go in quest of it . ' There was no arguing with him at the ...
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... writes : " Meantime let us be as merry as reading Burton upon Melancholy will make us . You bid me study that book in your absence , and now , what have I found ? Why , I have found , or fancied , that he has been cruelly plundered ...
... writes : " Meantime let us be as merry as reading Burton upon Melancholy will make us . You bid me study that book in your absence , and now , what have I found ? Why , I have found , or fancied , that he has been cruelly plundered ...
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