Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 479 pages |
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... remember , with Adam de Saltz- burg , son to Alexander , Duke and Prince of Bavaria , who came to England with the Conqueror , and in 1070 had obtained for his valour a faire House in Lancashire , still known by the name of Saltsbury ...
... remember , with Adam de Saltz- burg , son to Alexander , Duke and Prince of Bavaria , who came to England with the Conqueror , and in 1070 had obtained for his valour a faire House in Lancashire , still known by the name of Saltsbury ...
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... remember my father taking me out of the carriage to read it when I was quite a child . * There is a Benedictine convent seated on the top of a hill above the town ( Salzbourg ) , under which lie its founders and pro- tectors , the old ...
... remember my father taking me out of the carriage to read it when I was quite a child . * There is a Benedictine convent seated on the top of a hill above the town ( Salzbourg ) , under which lie its founders and pro- tectors , the old ...
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... 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 expected , " replied I , " to see an old baronet . " " Well ...
... 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 expected , " replied I , " to see an old baronet . " " Well ...
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... remember making him a formal courtesy , much to the Duchess's amuse- ment , perhaps to that of the player . I was just six years old , and we sate in the stage - box , where I kept on studying the part with all my little power , not at ...
... remember making him a formal courtesy , much to the Duchess's amuse- ment , perhaps to that of the player . I was just six years old , and we sate in the stage - box , where I kept on studying the part with all my little power , not at ...
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... remember nothing of them , but my uncle said they were full of Latin quotations : his son , father to Lord Combermere , burned them . I have looked in Lord Orford's miscellaneous works , and perceive that he and my friend Wraxall are of ...
... remember nothing of them , but my uncle said they were full of Latin quotations : his son , father to Lord Combermere , burned them . I have looked in Lord Orford's miscellaneous works , and perceive that he and my friend Wraxall are of ...
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