Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 479 pages |
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... laugh , who did not perhaps wish to see me give a heart away which he held completely in his hands , since he kindly became my preceptor in Latin , logic , rhetoric , & c . ---- We began , I think , before I was thirteen years old . On ...
... laugh , who did not perhaps wish to see me give a heart away which he held completely in his hands , since he kindly became my preceptor in Latin , logic , rhetoric , & c . ---- We began , I think , before I was thirteen years old . On ...
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... laugh , he looked very grave ; said he expected us to like him , and that seriously . The next day Mr. Thrale fol- lowed his eulogist , and applied himself so diligently to gain my mother's attention- aye , and her heart , too ...
... laugh , he looked very grave ; said he expected us to like him , and that seriously . The next day Mr. Thrale fol- lowed his eulogist , and applied himself so diligently to gain my mother's attention- aye , and her heart , too ...
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... to shake the superflux of his full mind over mine , ready to receive instruction conveyed with so much tender assiduity . " - " In a few years ( our Letters tell the date ) Johnson was introduced ; and now I must laugh at a.
... to shake the superflux of his full mind over mine , ready to receive instruction conveyed with so much tender assiduity . " - " In a few years ( our Letters tell the date ) Johnson was introduced ; and now I must laugh at a.
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Hester Lynch Piozzi Abraham Hayward. was introduced ; and now I must laugh at a ridiculous Retrospection . When I was ... laughed sans inter- mission an hour by the dial , as Jacques once at Motley . - Yet did dear Mr. Conway's fancy for ...
Hester Lynch Piozzi Abraham Hayward. was introduced ; and now I must laugh at a ridiculous Retrospection . When I was ... laughed sans inter- mission an hour by the dial , as Jacques once at Motley . - Yet did dear Mr. Conway's fancy for ...
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... laughed when I told you that his ex- pression was : Take it to you your mamma , and make it of her a countess ; it shall kill me , I know , but it shall kill her too . ' Miss Thrale took the Miss Thrale took the papers , and turned her ...
... laughed when I told you that his ex- pression was : Take it to you your mamma , and make it of her a countess ; it shall kill me , I know , but it shall kill her too . ' Miss Thrale took the Miss Thrale took the papers , and turned her ...
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