Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 479 pages |
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... talk meta- physics in my hearing , unless he himself was the re- spondent . Oh , what conversations ! What correspon- dences were these ! never renewed after my wedding day , October 11th , 1763. Dr. Johnson was perhaps justly offended ...
... talk meta- physics in my hearing , unless he himself was the re- spondent . Oh , what conversations ! What correspon- dences were these ! never renewed after my wedding day , October 11th , 1763. Dr. Johnson was perhaps justly offended ...
Page 32
... talk with the old female who so long carried coals to it . She has told all , or nearly all , she knew , - And like poor Andrew must advance , Mean mimic of her master's dance , But similes , like songs in love , Describing much , too ...
... talk with the old female who so long carried coals to it . She has told all , or nearly all , she knew , - And like poor Andrew must advance , Mean mimic of her master's dance , But similes , like songs in love , Describing much , too ...
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... talk enough , and the day went on very well , with an invitation to the ladies for Easter Tues- day , I remember ; and Pisani , the Venetian ambassador , Lord and Lady Coventry , and 130 people , in short , witnessed our gaiety and ...
... talk enough , and the day went on very well , with an invitation to the ladies for Easter Tues- day , I remember ; and Pisani , the Venetian ambassador , Lord and Lady Coventry , and 130 people , in short , witnessed our gaiety and ...
Page 80
... talk of setting a blind man's house on fire , because he has refused your favourite girl a ticket ? Fie ! fie ! I am ... talking of the French rondeaux one day , and both doctors said they were impracticable in English , so I made this ...
... talk of setting a blind man's house on fire , because he has refused your favourite girl a ticket ? Fie ! fie ! I am ... talking of the French rondeaux one day , and both doctors said they were impracticable in English , so I made this ...
Page 82
... talk , to which the ladies listened , just as they do to you ; and said , as I heard , there is no rising unless somebody will cry fire . " Johnson , May 23 , 1780 . The lady was Mrs. Montagu ; Johnson's bishop was the Bishop of St ...
... talk , to which the ladies listened , just as they do to you ; and said , as I heard , there is no rising unless somebody will cry fire . " Johnson , May 23 , 1780 . The lady was Mrs. Montagu ; Johnson's bishop was the Bishop of St ...
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Page 453 - How happy is the blameless vestal's lot ? The world forgetting, by the world forgot...
Page 111 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Page 444 - Before their eyes in sudden view appear The secrets of the hoary deep, a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and highth. And time and place are lost...
Page 298 - New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister sickens, or a daughter mourns. Now kindred Merit fills the sable bier, Now lacerated Friendship claims a tear; Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from with'ring life away; New forms arise, and...
Page 158 - ... it would be hard to find a man so well entitled to notice by his wit that ever delighted so much in talking of his money.
Page 336 - Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours : Safety consists not in escape From dangers of a frightful shape ; An earthquake may be bid to spare The man that's strangled by a hair. Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread, Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow.
Page 136 - This poem has yet a grosser fault. With these trifling fictions are mingled the most awful and sacred truths, such as ought never to be polluted with such irreverend combinations.
Page 325 - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country'].
Page 164 - I'll quit my prey, And grant a kind reprieve; In hopes you'll have no more to say But when I call again this way, Well pleased the world will leave.
Page 166 - I know, cries Death, that at the best, I seldom am a welcome guest; But don't be captious, friend, at least; I little thought you'd still be able To stump about your farm and stable; Your years have run to a great length, I wish you joy though of your strength. Hold, says the farmer, not so fast, I have been lame these four years past. And no great wonder...