Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 479 pages |
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Page 12
... fancy some rough words passed concerning this . My uncle certainly but ill brooked my father's pride , and he still less willingly endured being informed that , if his quality friends would provide him some dis- tant establishment , my ...
... fancy some rough words passed concerning this . My uncle certainly but ill brooked my father's pride , and he still less willingly endured being informed that , if his quality friends would provide him some dis- tant establishment , my ...
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... fancy was impressed with . We sate on a terrace belonging to the Hills of Tern - now Lord Berwick's family , -and David Garrick was there , and made me sit on his lap , feeding me with cates , & c .; because having asked some one who ...
... fancy was impressed with . We sate on a terrace belonging to the Hills of Tern - now Lord Berwick's family , -and David Garrick was there , and made me sit on his lap , feeding me with cates , & c .; because having asked some one who ...
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... fancy to write in the " St. James's Chronicle , " unknown to my parents and my tutor too : it was my sport to see them reading , studying , blaming or praising their own little whim- sical girl's performances ; but such was their ...
... fancy to write in the " St. James's Chronicle , " unknown to my parents and my tutor too : it was my sport to see them reading , studying , blaming or praising their own little whim- sical girl's performances ; but such was their ...
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... fancy for H. L. P.'s con- versation grow up , at first , out of something not unlike this , when , his high - polished mind and fervid imagina- tion taking fire from the tall Beacon bearing Dr. Johnson's fame above the clouds , he ...
... fancy for H. L. P.'s con- versation grow up , at first , out of something not unlike this , when , his high - polished mind and fervid imagina- tion taking fire from the tall Beacon bearing Dr. Johnson's fame above the clouds , he ...
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... fancy to his society , that we were seldom apart , except while Mr. Piozzi was studying to compose the six fine sonatas , that he dedicated to his favourite pupil , Miss Child , afterwards Lady Westmoreland . His voice strengthened by ...
... fancy to his society , that we were seldom apart , except while Mr. Piozzi was studying to compose the six fine sonatas , that he dedicated to his favourite pupil , Miss Child , afterwards Lady Westmoreland . His voice strengthened by ...
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