Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale), Volume 1Ticknor and Fields, 1861 - 531 pages |
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Page 11
... received for fees crusts of bread , bits of bacon , glasses of gin , and sometimes a little copper , completed this menagerie . " † It is strange that Lord Macaulay should have given this depre- ciating description of Levet , having ...
... received for fees crusts of bread , bits of bacon , glasses of gin , and sometimes a little copper , completed this menagerie . " † It is strange that Lord Macaulay should have given this depre- ciating description of Levet , having ...
Page 17
... receiving dignity from the manner in which Mr. John- son treated it , a 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 ...
... receiving dignity from the manner in which Mr. John- son treated it , a 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 ...
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... received touches from her ready and fruitful pen . Her fugitive pieces , mostly in verse , thrown off from time to time at all periods of her life , are numerous ; and the best of these that have been recovered will be included in these ...
... received touches from her ready and fruitful pen . Her fugitive pieces , mostly in verse , thrown off from time to time at all periods of her life , are numerous ; and the best of these that have been recovered will be included in these ...
Page 34
... chaise . " She then received me , taking both my hands , and with mixed politeness and cordiality welcoming me to Streatham . She led me into the house , and addressed herself almost wholly 34 LIFE AND WRITINGS OF MRS . PIOZZI .
... chaise . " She then received me , taking both my hands , and with mixed politeness and cordiality welcoming me to Streatham . She led me into the house , and addressed herself almost wholly 34 LIFE AND WRITINGS OF MRS . PIOZZI .
Page 47
... received for answer , that in the first place , the company were shut in with him there ; and could not escape , as out of a room ; in the next place , he heard all that was said in a carriage , where it was my turn to be deaf : and ...
... received for answer , that in the first place , the company were shut in with him there ; and could not escape , as out of a room ; in the next place , he heard all that was said in a carriage , where it was my turn to be deaf : and ...
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