Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale), Volume 1Ticknor and Fields, 1861 - 531 pages |
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... Lord Macaulay , has declared to be not less decidedly the first of biog- raphers , than Homer is the first of heroic poets , Shakespeare the first of dramatists , or Demosthenes the first of orators . The re- sult was eminently ...
... Lord Macaulay , has declared to be not less decidedly the first of biog- raphers , than Homer is the first of heroic poets , Shakespeare the first of dramatists , or Demosthenes the first of orators . The re- sult was eminently ...
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... ( Lord Cobham ) , and he naturally nourished hopes of being his uncle's successor . In the Abbey Church of St. Albans there is a monument to some members of the Thrale family who died between 1676 and 1704 , adorned with a shield of arms ...
... ( Lord Cobham ) , and he naturally nourished hopes of being his uncle's successor . In the Abbey Church of St. Albans there is a monument to some members of the Thrale family who died between 1676 and 1704 , adorned with a shield of arms ...
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... Lord Macaulay thus portrays the objects of Johnson's hospi- tality as soon as he had got a house to cover them . " It was the home of the most extraordinary assemblage of inmates that ever was brought together . At the head of the ...
... Lord Macaulay thus portrays the objects of Johnson's hospi- tality as soon as he had got a house to cover them . " It was the home of the most extraordinary assemblage of inmates that ever was brought together . At the head of the ...
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... Lord Macaulay says , they were flattered by finding that a man so widely celebrated preferred their house to every other in Lon- don ( where , by the way , very few of the same class were open to him ) , and suggests that even the ...
... Lord Macaulay says , they were flattered by finding that a man so widely celebrated preferred their house to every other in Lon- don ( where , by the way , very few of the same class were open to him ) , and suggests that even the ...
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... lords and great ladies do not like to have their mouths stopped , " as if this was peculiar to them as a class . " My ... Lord Lucan , Langton , Garrick , and the Club formed his main reliance as regards dinners ; and we find Bos- well ...
... lords and great ladies do not like to have their mouths stopped , " as if this was peculiar to them as a class . " My ... Lord Lucan , Langton , Garrick , and the Club formed his main reliance as regards dinners ; and we find Bos- well ...
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