Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 479 pages |
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... Johnson 123 Marginal Notes on Johnson's Lives of the Poets Miscellaneous or Original Compositions in Prose and 132 Verse . The Three Warnings The Streatham Portraits Asheri 163 165 170 • 181 Character of Thrale Translation of Laura ...
... Johnson 123 Marginal Notes on Johnson's Lives of the Poets Miscellaneous or Original Compositions in Prose and 132 Verse . The Three Warnings The Streatham Portraits Asheri 163 165 170 • 181 Character of Thrale Translation of Laura ...
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... Johnson advised me to get a little book and write in it all the little anecdotes which might come to my knowledge , all the observations I might make or hear , all the verses never likely to be published , and , in fine , everything ...
... Johnson advised me to get a little book and write in it all the little anecdotes which might come to my knowledge , all the observations I might make or hear , all the verses never likely to be published , and , in fine , everything ...
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... Johnson ( now introduced among us ) told me once , before her face , who deeply did resent it , that I lived like my husband's kept mis- tress , shut from the world , its pleasures , or its cares . - The scene was soon to change . Fox ...
... Johnson ( now introduced among us ) told me once , before her face , who deeply did resent it , that I lived like my husband's kept mis- tress , shut from the world , its pleasures , or its cares . - The scene was soon to change . Fox ...
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... Johnson's forty - eighth letter , 1st vol . But God tempers every evil with some good . Such was my charming mother's firmness and such her fond attachment to us both , that our philosophical friend , embracing her , ex- claimed , that ...
... Johnson's forty - eighth letter , 1st vol . But God tempers every evil with some good . Such was my charming mother's firmness and such her fond attachment to us both , that our philosophical friend , embracing her , ex- claimed , that ...
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... for I am no reader like you and Dr. Johnson ; I only remember that the last book I read was very pretty , and my husband called it an Abridg- 6 ment . ' ANECDOTE OF CHARLES TOWNSHEND . 31 30 AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS . 6.
... for I am no reader like you and Dr. Johnson ; I only remember that the last book I read was very pretty , and my husband called it an Abridg- 6 ment . ' ANECDOTE OF CHARLES TOWNSHEND . 31 30 AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS . 6.
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