Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 479 pages |
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... bishop's grand - daughter , whom they appeared to like exceedingly , with them , but she soon quitted her post on observing that they gave people to understand she was a cast mistress of dear Piozzi , who never saw her face out of their ...
... bishop's grand - daughter , whom they appeared to like exceedingly , with them , but she soon quitted her post on observing that they gave people to understand she was a cast mistress of dear Piozzi , who never saw her face out of their ...
Page 82
... bishop little better than your bishop ; and towards twelve we fell into talk , to which the ladies listened , just as they do to you ; and said , as I heard , there is no rising unless somebody will cry fire . " - Johnson , May 23 ...
... bishop little better than your bishop ; and towards twelve we fell into talk , to which the ladies listened , just as they do to you ; and said , as I heard , there is no rising unless somebody will cry fire . " - Johnson , May 23 ...
Page 97
... him , urging my long past acquaint- ance with his Lordship's uncles - the bishop and Lord Westcote . He looked uneasily at me , but I soothed , VOL . II . H and Sophia gave him no quarter ; so with something THE LYTTELTON GHOST . 97.
... him , urging my long past acquaint- ance with his Lordship's uncles - the bishop and Lord Westcote . He looked uneasily at me , but I soothed , VOL . II . H and Sophia gave him no quarter ; so with something THE LYTTELTON GHOST . 97.
Page 126
... Bishop Percy , says : " I take for granted that you have read Dr. Johnson's Correspondence , published by Mrs. Piozzi : and though you might not have been sorry to have read the whole , yet I wish , for the Doctor's sake , that only ...
... Bishop Percy , says : " I take for granted that you have read Dr. Johnson's Correspondence , published by Mrs. Piozzi : and though you might not have been sorry to have read the whole , yet I wish , for the Doctor's sake , that only ...
Page 129
... bishops : Well ! I do think it was out of rule for a bishop to make a dinner on Holy Thursday . It would shock a foreign Romanist to hear of it . Who was the bishop I wonder ? But there were two it seems . VOL . II . K On Mrs. Garrick ...
... bishops : Well ! I do think it was out of rule for a bishop to make a dinner on Holy Thursday . It would shock a foreign Romanist to hear of it . Who was the bishop I wonder ? But there were two it seems . VOL . II . K On Mrs. Garrick ...
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