Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale), Volume 1Ticknor and Fields, 1861 - 531 pages |
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... natural roughness and irritability , on the other hand it had helped largely to bring out his sterling virtues , his discriminating charity , his genuine be- nevolence , his well - timed generosity , his large - hearted sympathy with ...
... natural roughness and irritability , on the other hand it had helped largely to bring out his sterling virtues , his discriminating charity , his genuine be- nevolence , his well - timed generosity , his large - hearted sympathy with ...
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... Nature ever mocks The laborer's toil , " I roam through clans of savage men , Untamed by arts , untaught by pen ; Or cower within some squalid den O'er reeking soil . " Through paths that halt from stone to stone , Amid the din of ...
... Nature ever mocks The laborer's toil , " I roam through clans of savage men , Untamed by arts , untaught by pen ; Or cower within some squalid den O'er reeking soil . " Through paths that halt from stone to stone , Amid the din of ...
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... Nature gives at thirty - five . Ladies , stock and tend your hive , Trifle not at thirty - five ; For howe'er we boast and strive , Life declines from thirty - five : He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty - five ; And all ...
... Nature gives at thirty - five . Ladies , stock and tend your hive , Trifle not at thirty - five ; For howe'er we boast and strive , Life declines from thirty - five : He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty - five ; And all ...
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... had introduced a dead yellow color into her complexion , quite unlike that of her natural skin , and that she wished to conceal the deformity . " - Piozziana . tion , for this work ) will be found in 24 LIFE AND WRITINGS OF MRS . PIOZZI .
... had introduced a dead yellow color into her complexion , quite unlike that of her natural skin , and that she wished to conceal the deformity . " - Piozziana . tion , for this work ) will be found in 24 LIFE AND WRITINGS OF MRS . PIOZZI .
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... Nature's God Which Nature's self inspires ? ' and that Dr. Johnson observed , it had been borrowed from Guarini . There are , indeed , in Pastor Fido , many such flimsy , superficial reasonings as that in the last two lines of this ...
... Nature's God Which Nature's self inspires ? ' and that Dr. Johnson observed , it had been borrowed from Guarini . There are , indeed , in Pastor Fido , many such flimsy , superficial reasonings as that in the last two lines of this ...
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