Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale), Volume 1Ticknor and Fields, 1861 - 531 pages |
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... father and uncle , the Rev. Daniel Lysons and Mr. Samuel Lysons , the friend and correspondent of Johnson ; and I shall have many more obligations to acknowledge as I proceed . From 1776 to 1809 Mrs. Piozzi kept a copious diary and note ...
... father and uncle , the Rev. Daniel Lysons and Mr. Samuel Lysons , the friend and correspondent of Johnson ; and I shall have many more obligations to acknowledge as I proceed . From 1776 to 1809 Mrs. Piozzi kept a copious diary and note ...
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... father : He worked at six shillings a week for twenty years in the great brewery , which afterwards was his own . The proprietor of it had an only daughter , who was married to a nobleman . It was not fit that a peer should continue the ...
... father : He worked at six shillings a week for twenty years in the great brewery , which afterwards was his own . The proprietor of it had an only daughter , who was married to a nobleman . It was not fit that a peer should continue the ...
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... father ) ; said he would make a man of him , and did so , but made him work very hard , and treated him very roughly , Halsey being more proud than tender , and his only child , a daughter , married to Lord Cobham . -- " Old Thrale ...
... father ) ; said he would make a man of him , and did so , but made him work very hard , and treated him very roughly , Halsey being more proud than tender , and his only child , a daughter , married to Lord Cobham . -- " Old Thrale ...
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... father's birthplace , a very handsome and well - accomplished gentleman . " After expatiating on the advantages of birth , and the presump- tion of new men in attempting to found a new system of gentility , Boswell proceeds : " Mr ...
... father's birthplace , a very handsome and well - accomplished gentleman . " After expatiating on the advantages of birth , and the presump- tion of new men in attempting to found a new system of gentility , Boswell proceeds : " Mr ...
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... father's handwriting , and copied , I have heard him say , from the original slip , which was worn out by age and fingering . The exact words are , ' In this bason was baptized Hester Lynch Salusbury , 16th Jan. 1740–41 old style , at ...
... father's handwriting , and copied , I have heard him say , from the original slip , which was worn out by age and fingering . The exact words are , ' In this bason was baptized Hester Lynch Salusbury , 16th Jan. 1740–41 old style , at ...
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