Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 479 pages |
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... dinner to - day : do you know how to spell Clough ? " " No , " was the reply ; " I never heard the name ; but if it had been spelt like buff , you would not have asked me the question . They write it CHILDISH REMINISCENCES . 11.
... dinner to - day : do you know how to spell Clough ? " " No , " was the reply ; " I never heard the name ; but if it had been spelt like buff , you would not have asked me the question . They write it CHILDISH REMINISCENCES . 11.
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... dinner by a billet of earnest request . All of us were ill , but by the time he came , my father died , and was brought us home a corpse , before the dining hour . This was December 1762 , fifty - three years ago exactly . Yet are not ...
... dinner by a billet of earnest request . All of us were ill , but by the time he came , my father died , and was brought us home a corpse , before the dining hour . This was December 1762 , fifty - three years ago exactly . Yet are not ...
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... dinner till I saw it . Driven thus on literature as my sole resource , no wonder if I loved my books and children . From a gay life my mother held me fast . Those pleasures Mr. Thrale enjoyed alone ; with me indeed they never would 24 ...
... dinner till I saw it . Driven thus on literature as my sole resource , no wonder if I loved my books and children . From a gay life my mother held me fast . Those pleasures Mr. Thrale enjoyed alone ; with me indeed they never would 24 ...
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... dinner with us at our inn ! least , Merry Andrew , because he could tell us such clever stories of his master . ' My Father laughed sans inter- mission an hour by the dial , as Jacques once at Motley . -- Yet did dear Mr. Conway's fancy ...
... dinner with us at our inn ! least , Merry Andrew , because he could tell us such clever stories of his master . ' My Father laughed sans inter- mission an hour by the dial , as Jacques once at Motley . -- Yet did dear Mr. Conway's fancy ...
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... dinner with Lady Keith and Doctor Burney and his daughter , I believe , my servant Sam opened the drawing - room door with un air effaré , saying : " My master is come home , but there is something amiss . " I started up , and saw a ...
... dinner with Lady Keith and Doctor Burney and his daughter , I believe , my servant Sam opened the drawing - room door with un air effaré , saying : " My master is come home , but there is something amiss . " I started up , and saw a ...
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