Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale), Volume 1Ticknor and Fields, 1861 - 531 pages |
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... hours , or more properly ( says Mrs. Thrale ) hated early ones . Nothing was more terrifying to him than the idea of going to bed , which he never would call going to rest , or suffer another to call it so . " I lie down that my ...
... hours , or more properly ( says Mrs. Thrale ) hated early ones . Nothing was more terrifying to him than the idea of going to bed , which he never would call going to rest , or suffer another to call it so . " I lie down that my ...
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... hour together . " Women almost always like men who like them . Johnson , despite of his unwieldy figure , scarred features , and uncouth gestures , was a favorite with the fair ; and talked of affairs of the heart as things of which he ...
... hour together . " Women almost always like men who like them . Johnson , despite of his unwieldy figure , scarred features , and uncouth gestures , was a favorite with the fair ; and talked of affairs of the heart as things of which he ...
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... hours should never drive O'er the bounds of thirty - five . High to soar , and deep to dive , Nature gives at thirty - five . Ladies , stock and tend your hive , Trifle not at thirty - five ; For howe'er we boast and strive , Life ...
... hours should never drive O'er the bounds of thirty - five . High to soar , and deep to dive , Nature gives at thirty - five . Ladies , stock and tend your hive , Trifle not at thirty - five ; For howe'er we boast and strive , Life ...
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... hour ) I got his order for six butts more as the final trial . " Examples of fine ladies pressing tradesmen for their votes with compromising importunity are far from rare , but it would be difficult to find a parallel for Johnson's ...
... hour ) I got his order for six butts more as the final trial . " Examples of fine ladies pressing tradesmen for their votes with compromising importunity are far from rare , but it would be difficult to find a parallel for Johnson's ...
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... hour of going to bed to walk on the wall , where , from the want of light , I apprehended some accident to her , - perhaps to him . " - - ― He thus describes Mrs. Thrale's family mansion : " Saturday , July 30. We went to Bâch y Graig ...
... hour of going to bed to walk on the wall , where , from the want of light , I apprehended some accident to her , - perhaps to him . " - - ― He thus describes Mrs. Thrale's family mansion : " Saturday , July 30. We went to Bâch y Graig ...
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