Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 479 pages |
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... anecdotes , as well as her remarks upon the recent publications . They were tied together and carefully preserved ; and on one occasion Mrs. Piozzi , pointing to them , observed to me : These you will one day have to look over with ...
... anecdotes , as well as her remarks upon the recent publications . They were tied together and carefully preserved ; and on one occasion Mrs. Piozzi , pointing to them , observed to me : These you will one day have to look over with ...
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... anecdotes of the characters con- cerned ; criticisms on the publications and authors of the day , & c . Now I am approaching the grave , and am agitated by doubts as to what I should do - whether to burn my manuscripts or leave them to ...
... anecdotes of the characters con- cerned ; criticisms on the publications and authors of the day , & c . Now I am approaching the grave , and am agitated by doubts as to what I should do - whether to burn my manuscripts or leave them to ...
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... anecdotes which might come to my knowledge , all the observations I might make or hear , all the verses never likely to be published , and , in fine , everything that struck me at the time . Mr. Thrale has now treated me with a ...
... anecdotes which might come to my knowledge , all the observations I might make or hear , all the verses never likely to be published , and , in fine , everything that struck me at the time . Mr. Thrale has now treated me with a ...
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... anecdotes are these , you cry . ' Tis so , but your poor friend 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 ...
... anecdotes are these , you cry . ' Tis so , but your poor friend 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 ...
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... look older , at least feel older , than he wished , I suppose . Lord Halifax was now , or soon after , head of the Board of Trade , and wished to immortalise his name he had no sóns - by colonising Nova Scotia . ANECDOTES OF CHILDHOOD . 13.
... look older , at least feel older , than he wished , I suppose . Lord Halifax was now , or soon after , head of the Board of Trade , and wished to immortalise his name he had no sóns - by colonising Nova Scotia . ANECDOTES OF CHILDHOOD . 13.
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