Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 479 pages |
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... Dear ; for I am no reader like you and Dr. Johnson ; I only remember that the last book I read was very pretty , and my husband called it an Abridg- ment . ' ANECDOTE OF CHARLES TOWNSHEND . · 31 30 30 AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS .
... Dear ; for I am no reader like you and Dr. Johnson ; I only remember that the last book I read was very pretty , and my husband called it an Abridg- ment . ' ANECDOTE OF CHARLES TOWNSHEND . · 31 30 30 AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS .
Page 32
... pretty verses , and leaving Dr. Johnson too , who was himself severely censured for his rough criticism on a writer who had pleased all in our Augustan age of Literature , poor H. L. P. turns egotist at eighty , and tells her own ...
... pretty verses , and leaving Dr. Johnson too , who was himself severely censured for his rough criticism on a writer who had pleased all in our Augustan age of Literature , poor H. L. P. turns egotist at eighty , and tells her own ...
Page 53
... ( of the pretty house in Gay Street ) and Dobson , from Liverpool , were our medical advisers . " Doctor Johnson never came to look for me at Streatham , where I lodged during Cecy's danger * ; E 3 PARTING FROM PIOZZI . 53 .
... ( of the pretty house in Gay Street ) and Dobson , from Liverpool , were our medical advisers . " Doctor Johnson never came to look for me at Streatham , where I lodged during Cecy's danger * ; E 3 PARTING FROM PIOZZI . 53 .
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... pretty villa in North Wales , and conforming to our religious opinions , kindly set our little church at Dymerchion in a state it never before enjoyed , spending sums of money on its decoration , and making a vault for F 4 BRYNBELLA . 71.
... pretty villa in North Wales , and conforming to our religious opinions , kindly set our little church at Dymerchion in a state it never before enjoyed , spending sums of money on its decoration , and making a vault for F 4 BRYNBELLA . 71.
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... pretty villa in North Wales . You know that he left me that , and everything else , never naming his nephew in the will , only leaving among his father's children 6000l . in the three per cents . , being the whole of his savings during ...
... pretty villa in North Wales . You know that he left me that , and everything else , never naming his nephew in the will , only leaving among his father's children 6000l . in the three per cents . , being the whole of his savings during ...
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