Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 479 pages |
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... sent out , the first persons in every sense of the word ; and poor dear mamma was left sine pane almost , I believe , cer- tainly sine nummo , with her odd little charge , a girl without a guinea , whose mind however she ceased not to ...
... sent out , the first persons in every sense of the word ; and poor dear mamma was left sine pane almost , I believe , cer- tainly sine nummo , with her odd little charge , a girl without a guinea , whose mind however she ceased not to ...
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... sent in a sly manner , from Dr. Collier , to tell me ( it was written in Latin ) that Sir Thomas would certainly marry Mrs. King the Sunday following , and begged I would not say a syllable till the next day , when he would come and ...
... sent in a sly manner , from Dr. Collier , to tell me ( it was written in Latin ) that Sir Thomas would certainly marry Mrs. King the Sunday following , and begged I would not say a syllable till the next day , when he would come and ...
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... sent us to Bath , whence rioters dis- lodged and drove us to Brighthelmstone . From thence we returned to London : a ready - furnished house in Grosvenor Square being thought the best place by medical advisers , while Perkins assured ...
... sent us to Bath , whence rioters dis- lodged and drove us to Brighthelmstone . From thence we returned to London : a ready - furnished house in Grosvenor Square being thought the best place by medical advisers , while Perkins assured ...
Page 47
... sent us a knot of rich Quakers who bought the whole , and saved me and my coadjutors from brewing ourselves into another bankruptcy , which hardly could , I think , have been avoided being , as we were five in number , Cator , Crutchley ...
... sent us a knot of rich Quakers who bought the whole , and saved me and my coadjutors from brewing ourselves into another bankruptcy , which hardly could , I think , have been avoided being , as we were five in number , Cator , Crutchley ...
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... sent for him and Sacchini , the great opera composer , and it was when they came back loaded with presents , and honours , and emoluments , that Dr. Johnson congratulated me on having got Piozzi again . Sacchini returned and died at ...
... sent for him and Sacchini , the great opera composer , and it was when they came back loaded with presents , and honours , and emoluments , that Dr. Johnson congratulated me on having got Piozzi again . Sacchini returned and died at ...
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