Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale), Volume 1Ticknor and Fields, 1861 - 531 pages |
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... replied , " It's all gone , your honor ; but there's some capital lob- ster - sauce left . " This would have suited Johnson equally well , or better ; he was so fond of lobster - sauce , that he would call for the sauce - boat and pour ...
... replied , " It's all gone , your honor ; but there's some capital lob- ster - sauce left . " This would have suited Johnson equally well , or better ; he was so fond of lobster - sauce , that he would call for the sauce - boat and pour ...
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... replied , " Madam , I do not like to come down to vacuity . " - If his early familiarity with all the miseries of destitution , aggravated by disease , had increased his natural roughness and irritability , on the other hand it had ...
... replied , " Madam , I do not like to come down to vacuity . " - If his early familiarity with all the miseries of destitution , aggravated by disease , had increased his natural roughness and irritability , on the other hand it had ...
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... replied our philosopher , ' because they treat , as you call it , about love , but because they treat of nothing , that they are despicable : we must not ridicule a passion which he who never felt never was happy , and he who laughs at ...
... replied our philosopher , ' because they treat , as you call it , about love , but because they treat of nothing , that they are despicable : we must not ridicule a passion which he who never felt never was happy , and he who laughs at ...
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... replied that his devotion was at least as warm towards the table and the table - cloth at Streatham . One day when he was ill , exceedingly low - spirited , and per- suaded that death was not far distant , she appeared before him in a ...
... replied that his devotion was at least as warm towards the table and the table - cloth at Streatham . One day when he was ill , exceedingly low - spirited , and per- suaded that death was not far distant , she appeared before him in a ...
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... replied : " He may do as he likes , but I will not go down to posterity as Blinking Sam . " - Reynolds's portrait of Mrs. Thrale conveys a highly agreeable impression of her ; and so does Hogarth's when she sat to him for the principal ...
... replied : " He may do as he likes , but I will not go down to posterity as Blinking Sam . " - Reynolds's portrait of Mrs. Thrale conveys a highly agreeable impression of her ; and so does Hogarth's when she sat to him for the principal ...
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