Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 479 pages |
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... lost Lady Betty . The scheme prospered : grandmamma Salusbury * There is a tradition in the Cotton family that she could re- peat the names of most of the rivers in the world , but when asked the name of the river at the bottom of the ...
... lost Lady Betty . The scheme prospered : grandmamma Salusbury * There is a tradition in the Cotton family that she could re- peat the names of most of the rivers in the world , but when asked the name of the river at the bottom of the ...
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... 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 kept on ...
... 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 kept on ...
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... privations , money for the purpose ; but Uncle Thomas neglected his absent brother's interest , and the estate was lost . Love was , however , his apology ; and a faint hope , perhaps , that so immense a 16 AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS .
... privations , money for the purpose ; but Uncle Thomas neglected his absent brother's interest , and the estate was lost . Love was , however , his apology ; and a faint hope , perhaps , that so immense a 16 AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS .
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... lost her precious life by a severe miscarriage . She , however , lived with him nine years , and said it were pity I should not learn Latin , Italian , and even Spanish , in all which she was conversant . Study was my delight , and such ...
... lost her precious life by a severe miscarriage . She , however , lived with him nine years , and said it were pity I should not learn Latin , Italian , and even Spanish , in all which she was conversant . Study was my delight , and such ...
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... lost him a farm of 100l . a year , added 5000l . more ; with which ( and expectations of course ) Mr. Thrale deigned to accept my undesired hand , and in ten months from my poor father's death , were both the marriages he feared ...
... lost him a farm of 100l . a year , added 5000l . more ; with which ( and expectations of course ) Mr. Thrale deigned to accept my undesired hand , and in ten months from my poor father's death , were both the marriages he feared ...
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