Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale), Volume 1Ticknor and Fields, 1861 - 531 pages |
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... lady . He was generally last at breakfast , but one morning happened to be first , and waited some time alone ; when afterwards twitted by Mrs. Thrale with irregularity , he replied , " Madam , I do not like to come down to vacuity ...
... lady . He was generally last at breakfast , but one morning happened to be first , and waited some time alone ; when afterwards twitted by Mrs. Thrale with irregularity , he replied , " Madam , I do not like to come down to vacuity ...
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... lady named Williams , whose chief recommenda- tions were her blindness and her poverty . But in spite of her murmurs and reproaches , he gave an asylum to another lady who was as poor as herself , Mrs. Desmoulins , whose family he had ...
... lady named Williams , whose chief recommenda- tions were her blindness and her poverty . But in spite of her murmurs and reproaches , he gave an asylum to another lady who was as poor as herself , Mrs. Desmoulins , whose family he had ...
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... lady's back who sat on the same settee with her . His pride could not bear that any expression of his should excite ridicule , when he did not in- tend it : he therefore resolved to assume and exercise despotic power , glanced sternly ...
... lady's back who sat on the same settee with her . His pride could not bear that any expression of his should excite ridicule , when he did not in- tend it : he therefore resolved to assume and exercise despotic power , glanced sternly ...
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... lady at my house said , she would make him talk about love ; and took her measures accordingly , deriding the novels of the day because they treated about love . ' It is not , ' replied our philosopher , ' because they treat , as you ...
... lady at my house said , she would make him talk about love ; and took her measures accordingly , deriding the novels of the day because they treated about love . ' It is not , ' replied our philosopher , ' because they treat , as you ...
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... Lady Aldborough , whose best witticisms unluckily lie under the same merited ban as Rochester's best verses , resolved not to pass twenty - five , and had her passport made out accordingly till her death at eighty - five . She used to ...
... Lady Aldborough , whose best witticisms unluckily lie under the same merited ban as Rochester's best verses , resolved not to pass twenty - five , and had her passport made out accordingly till her death at eighty - five . She used to ...
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