Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 479 pages |
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... Streatham Park more than twenty years afterwards , he did not like that story : it made him look older , at least feel older , than he wished , I suppose . Lord Halifax was now , or soon after , head of the Board of Trade , and wished ...
... Streatham Park more than twenty years afterwards , he did not like that story : it made him look older , at least feel older , than he wished , I suppose . Lord Halifax was now , or soon after , head of the Board of Trade , and wished ...
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... Streatham Park , returned to Hertfordshire , wedded the widow , and then scarce ever saw or wrote to either of us ; leaving me to conciliate as I could , a husband who was indeed much kinder than I counted on , to a plain girl , who had ...
... Streatham Park , returned to Hertfordshire , wedded the widow , and then scarce ever saw or wrote to either of us ; leaving me to conciliate as I could , a husband who was indeed much kinder than I counted on , to a plain girl , who had ...
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... Streatham Park was improving , and autumn came , and Lady Keith came , and I became of a little more importance . Confidence was no word in our vocabulary , and I tormented myself to guess who possessed that of Mr. Thrale ; not his ...
... Streatham Park was improving , and autumn came , and Lady Keith came , and I became of a little more importance . Confidence was no word in our vocabulary , and I tormented myself to guess who possessed that of Mr. Thrale ; not his ...
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... Streatham Park . A book of entertainment , ' said I , of course . ' " That I don't know or rightly comprehend , ' was her odd answer ; ' I wish for an Abridgment . ' ' An Abridg- ment of what ? ' ' That , ' she replied , you must tell ...
... Streatham Park . A book of entertainment , ' said I , of course . ' " That I don't know or rightly comprehend , ' was her odd answer ; ' I wish for an Abridgment . ' ' An Abridg- ment of what ? ' ' That , ' she replied , you must tell ...
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... Streatham Park , and left it after breakfast , looking as usual . His sister's husband , Mr. Nesbitt , often men- tioned in these Letters and Memoirs , had been dead perhaps a fortnight . He was commercially connected , I knew , with ...
... Streatham Park , and left it after breakfast , looking as usual . His sister's husband , Mr. Nesbitt , often men- tioned in these Letters and Memoirs , had been dead perhaps a fortnight . He was commercially connected , I knew , with ...
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