Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 479 pages |
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Page 13
... player . I was just six years old , and we sate in the stage - box , where I kept on studying the part with all my little power , not at all distracted by the lights or company , which they fancied would take my attention . The ...
... player . I was just six years old , and we sate in the stage - box , where I kept on studying the part with all my little power , not at all distracted by the lights or company , which they fancied would take my attention . The ...
Page 40
... play , and I remember composing it in the coach , as I was driving up and down after Lancaster : but my business in Southwark was of far severer import . Some fellow had incited our master to begin a new and expensive building to the ...
... play , and I remember composing it in the coach , as I was driving up and down after Lancaster : but my business in Southwark was of far severer import . Some fellow had incited our master to begin a new and expensive building to the ...
Page 44
... played with ; a little perhaps diverting herself by mortifying me , but there was no harm done , I am confident . He thought her a thing at least semi - celestial ; had he once found her out a mere mortal woman , his flame would have ...
... played with ; a little perhaps diverting herself by mortifying me , but there was no harm done , I am confident . He thought her a thing at least semi - celestial ; had he once found her out a mere mortal woman , his flame would have ...
Page 66
... play upon the natives , ridiculing their superstitions , & c . , I could bear no more of what they called philo- sophy , the less perhaps because they hoped I should be pleased with such discourse , and much amazed our Milanese friends ...
... play upon the natives , ridiculing their superstitions , & c . , I could bear no more of what they called philo- sophy , the less perhaps because they hoped I should be pleased with such discourse , and much amazed our Milanese friends ...
Page 81
... played off their best airs , and cast kind looks on his introducers from time to time : till the fellow wearied , as Johnson says , and disgusted with his ill - acted character , burst out on a sudden as they sate at tea , and cried ...
... played off their best airs , and cast kind looks on his introducers from time to time : till the fellow wearied , as Johnson says , and disgusted with his ill - acted character , burst out on a sudden as they sate at tea , and cried ...
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