Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 479 pages |
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... seen , when a child , some of the Electress's letters signed Sophia . I 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 ...
... seen , when a child , some of the Electress's letters signed Sophia . I 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 ...
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... seen , who was , in short , a model of perfection , ending his panegyric by saying that he was a real sportsman . Seeing me disposed to laugh , he looked very grave ; said he expected us to like him , and that seriously . The next day ...
... seen , who was , in short , a model of perfection , ending his panegyric by saying that he was a real sportsman . Seeing me disposed to laugh , he looked very grave ; said he expected us to like him , and that seriously . The next day ...
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... seen by me till called upon to inhabit it . Here , too , my mother quitted us , and lived at our old mansion in Dean Street , Soho , then no unfashionable part of the world , and thither I went - oh how willingly ! to visit her every ...
... seen by me till called upon to inhabit it . Here , too , my mother quitted us , and lived at our old mansion in Dean Street , Soho , then no unfashionable part of the world , and thither I went - oh how willingly ! to visit her every ...
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... seen the will opened , and had dropped as if lifeless from the dinner - table ; when , instead of calling help , they called their carriage , and brought him five or six miles out of town in that condition . Would it not much enrage one ...
... seen the will opened , and had dropped as if lifeless from the dinner - table ; when , instead of calling help , they called their carriage , and brought him five or six miles out of town in that condition . Would it not much enrage one ...
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... seen a spirit , who has warned him that he is to die within the next three days , and I have thought of nothing else ever since . " No further accounts reached Streatham Park till Monday morning , when every tongue was telling how a Mrs ...
... seen a spirit , who has warned him that he is to die within the next three days , and I have thought of nothing else ever since . " No further accounts reached Streatham Park till Monday morning , when every tongue was telling how a Mrs ...
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