Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale), Volume 1Ticknor and Fields, 1861 - 531 pages |
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... Epigrams and Translations 275 Verses on Buffon . Dedication and Preface of the " Florence Miscellany " Occasional Verses 280 281 283 LETTERS 287 MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS FROM THRALIANA " " " 477 EXTRACTS FROM " BRITISH SYNONYMY ' INDEX ...
... Epigrams and Translations 275 Verses on Buffon . Dedication and Preface of the " Florence Miscellany " Occasional Verses 280 281 283 LETTERS 287 MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS FROM THRALIANA " " " 477 EXTRACTS FROM " BRITISH SYNONYMY ' INDEX ...
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... epigram into idiomatic English . 66 Mary Aston , " said Johnson , " was a beauty and a scholar , and a wit and a whig ; and she talked all in praise of liberty ; and so I made this epigram upon her . She was the loveliest creature I ...
... epigram into idiomatic English . 66 Mary Aston , " said Johnson , " was a beauty and a scholar , and a wit and a whig ; and she talked all in praise of liberty ; and so I made this epigram upon her . She was the loveliest creature I ...
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... epigram on a young lady who appeared at a mas- querade in Paris , habited as a Jesuit , during the height of the contention between the Jansenists and Molinists concerning free - will : " On s'étonne ici que Calviniste Eût pris l'habit ...
... epigram on a young lady who appeared at a mas- querade in Paris , habited as a Jesuit , during the height of the contention between the Jansenists and Molinists concerning free - will : " On s'étonne ici que Calviniste Eût pris l'habit ...
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... epigram only of two lines which the doctor has here spun into length ( vide “ Anthol . ” lib . 7 ) , and there is some account of it too in Bonhours . 66 What , however , is much more extraordinary , is that the famous Tristram Shandy ...
... epigram only of two lines which the doctor has here spun into length ( vide “ Anthol . ” lib . 7 ) , and there is some account of it too in Bonhours . 66 What , however , is much more extraordinary , is that the famous Tristram Shandy ...
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... Epigram upon his own motto : " Dum vivimus , vivamus . " " Live while you live , the epicure will say , And give to pleasure ev'ry passing day ; Live while you live , the sacred preacher cries , And give to God each moment as it flies ...
... Epigram upon his own motto : " Dum vivimus , vivamus . " " Live while you live , the epicure will say , And give to pleasure ev'ry passing day ; Live while you live , the sacred preacher cries , And give to God each moment as it flies ...
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