Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 479 pages |
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... Paradise Lost . " When they took me to see him act Cato , I remember making him a formal courtesy , much to the Duchess's amuse- ment , perhaps to that of the player . I was just six years old , and we sate in the stage - box , where I ...
... Paradise Lost . " When they took me to see him act Cato , I remember making him a formal courtesy , much to the Duchess's amuse- ment , perhaps to that of the player . I was just six years old , and we sate in the stage - box , where I ...
Page 74
... Paradise Lost " : Thus have I told thee all my state ; and brought My story to that sum of earthly bliss Which I enjoy : and since at length to part , Go ; sent of heaven , angelic messenger , Gentle to me , and affable hath been ...
... Paradise Lost " : Thus have I told thee all my state ; and brought My story to that sum of earthly bliss Which I enjoy : and since at length to part , Go ; sent of heaven , angelic messenger , Gentle to me , and affable hath been ...
Page 137
... Paradise Lost . " He is wicked , too , with great dignity Not the Devil trodden down by Guido's Michael , but the Demon of Lanfranc , at Capo di Monte . " But with guilt , enter distrust and discord , & c . " - ( Vol . ix . p . 163 ...
... Paradise Lost . " He is wicked , too , with great dignity Not the Devil trodden down by Guido's Michael , but the Demon of Lanfranc , at Capo di Monte . " But with guilt , enter distrust and discord , & c . " - ( Vol . ix . p . 163 ...
Page 138
... Paradise Lost , would not have been so elegantly divided , I believe , had Milton never read Homer . ( Story of Butler and the Duke of Buckingham . Vol . ix . p . 187 . ) - Johnson makes use of this story in his Rambler , " of the man ...
... Paradise Lost , would not have been so elegantly divided , I believe , had Milton never read Homer . ( Story of Butler and the Duke of Buckingham . Vol . ix . p . 187 . ) - Johnson makes use of this story in his Rambler , " of the man ...
Page 273
... Paradise Lost , either to Louis dixhuit , or to Buonaparte . That lady , although we are on visiting terms , was not likely , you know , to forward the recep- tion of H. L. P. , against whom she raised the grand cry for marrying a ...
... Paradise Lost , either to Louis dixhuit , or to Buonaparte . That lady , although we are on visiting terms , was not likely , you know , to forward the recep- tion of H. L. P. , against whom she raised the grand cry for marrying a ...
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