Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 479 pages |
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... certainly did not obtain his love by flattery , as I remember well this odd tête - à - tête con- versation : - " Come now , dear , " said he , " that we are quite alone , tell me what you expected to see here at Llewenney . " " I ...
... certainly did not obtain his love by flattery , as I remember well this odd tête - à - tête con- versation : - " Come now , dear , " said he , " that we are quite alone , tell me what you expected to see here at Llewenney . " " I ...
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... certainly ceased being in any wise a wonder after she was five years old , at which period we left Wales and came to my uncle's house in Albe- marle Street , where he told my mother he should follow in less than two months ; make a new ...
... certainly ceased being in any wise a wonder after she was five years old , at which period we left Wales and came to my uncle's house in Albe- marle Street , where he told my mother he should follow in less than two months ; make a new ...
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... certainly had not a common share in the compliments he paid to my mother's wit , beauty , and elegance . His father , he said , was born in our village at Offley , of mean parents , but had made a prodigious fortune , by his merits and ...
... certainly had not a common share in the compliments he paid to my mother's wit , beauty , and elegance . His father , he said , was born in our village at Offley , of mean parents , but had made a prodigious fortune , by his merits and ...
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... certainly marry Mrs. King the Sunday following , and begged I would not say a syllable till the next day , when he would come and break the dreadful tidings to my father . My countenance , however , showed , or his acuteness discovered ...
... certainly marry Mrs. King the Sunday following , and begged I would not say a syllable till the next day , when he would come and break the dreadful tidings to my father . My countenance , however , showed , or his acuteness discovered ...
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... certainly , who scarce dared approach him— much less come near me ; whose place he said was either in the drawing - room or the bed - chamber . We kept , meantime , a famous pack of fox - hounds , at a hunting box near Croydon ; but it ...
... certainly , who scarce dared approach him— much less come near me ; whose place he said was either in the drawing - room or the bed - chamber . We kept , meantime , a famous pack of fox - hounds , at a hunting box near Croydon ; but it ...
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