Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 479 pages |
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... town ( Salzbourg ) , under which lie its founders and pro- tectors , the old dukes of Bavaria , which they are happy to shew travellers , with the registered account of their young prince Adam , who came over to our island with William ...
... town ( Salzbourg ) , under which lie its founders and pro- tectors , the old dukes of Bavaria , which they are happy to shew travellers , with the registered account of their young prince Adam , who came over to our island with William ...
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... town , and I became a favourite with the Duke and Duchess of Leeds , where I recollect often meeting the famous actor Mr. Quin , who taught me to speak Satan's speech to the sun in " Paradise Lost . " When they took me to see him act ...
... town , and I became a favourite with the Duke and Duchess of Leeds , where I recollect often meeting the famous actor Mr. Quin , who taught me to speak Satan's speech to the sun in " Paradise Lost . " When they took me to see him act ...
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... town for a night or two , and returned to tell us what an excellent , what an incomparable young man he had seen , who was , in short , a model of perfection , ending his panegyric by saying that he was a real sportsman . Seeing me ...
... town for a night or two , and returned to tell us what an excellent , what an incomparable young man he had seen , who was , in short , a model of perfection , ending his panegyric by saying that he was a real sportsman . Seeing me ...
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... town by the emphatic title " King of Hell , " besides a very sickly old physician , who seemed as if living with us , Dr. Fitzpatrick , a Roman Catholic ; the rest were professed Infidels . When winter came , however , I was carried to ...
... town by the emphatic title " King of Hell , " besides a very sickly old physician , who seemed as if living with us , Dr. Fitzpatrick , a Roman Catholic ; the rest were professed Infidels . When winter came , however , I was carried to ...
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... town we were pass- ing through . What a fine fellow ! ' said I ; dear Papa , do ask him to dinner with us at our inn ! least , Merry Andrew , because he could tell us such clever stories of his master . ' My Father laughed sans inter ...
... town we were pass- ing through . What a fine fellow ! ' said I ; dear Papa , do ask him to dinner with us at our inn ! least , Merry Andrew , because he could tell us such clever stories of his master . ' My Father laughed sans inter ...
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