Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale), Volume 1Ticknor and Fields, 1861 - 531 pages |
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Page 5
... sent for one of them to London ( my Mr. Thrale's father ) ; said he would make a man of him , and did so , but made him work very hard , and treated him very roughly , Halsey being more proud than tender , and his only child , a ...
... sent for one of them to London ( my Mr. Thrale's father ) ; said he would make a man of him , and did so , but made him work very hard , and treated him very roughly , Halsey being more proud than tender , and his only child , a ...
Page 8
... sent to him . Talking of the symptoms of Christopher Smart's madness , he said , " Another charge was that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it . " In general his wigs were very shabby , and their foreparts were ...
... sent to him . Talking of the symptoms of Christopher Smart's madness , he said , " Another charge was that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it . " In general his wigs were very shabby , and their foreparts were ...
Page 41
... sent him in their beer . I called on him to - day , however , and by dint of an unwearied solicitation ( for I kept him at the coach side a full half - hour ) I got his order for six butts more as the final trial . " Examples of fine ...
... sent him in their beer . I called on him to - day , however , and by dint of an unwearied solicitation ( for I kept him at the coach side a full half - hour ) I got his order for six butts more as the final trial . " Examples of fine ...
Page 53
... sent one of the gentlemen to inquire who she was . I find all true that you have ever told me at Paris . Mr. Thrale is very liberal , and keeps us two coaches , and a very fine table ; but I think our cookery very bad . Mrs. Thrale got ...
... sent one of the gentlemen to inquire who she was . I find all true that you have ever told me at Paris . Mr. Thrale is very liberal , and keeps us two coaches , and a very fine table ; but I think our cookery very bad . Mrs. Thrale got ...
Page 62
... sent out by his own express desire : so little was he aware of his danger . Letters and messages of condolence poured in from all sides . Johnson says all that can be said in the way of counsel or consolation : — " I do not exhort you ...
... sent out by his own express desire : so little was he aware of his danger . Letters and messages of condolence poured in from all sides . Johnson says all that can be said in the way of counsel or consolation : — " I do not exhort you ...
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