Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 479 pages |
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... wish to see me give a heart away which he held completely in his hands , since he kindly became my preceptor in Latin , logic , rhetoric , & c . We began , I think , before I was thirteen years old . On the day I was sixteen he ...
... wish to see me give a heart away which he held completely in his hands , since he kindly became my preceptor in Latin , logic , rhetoric , & c . We began , I think , before I was thirteen years old . On the day I was sixteen he ...
Page 30
... wish for an Abridgment . ' ' An Abridg- ment of what ? ' ' That , ' she replied , you must tell me , my 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 ...
... wish for an Abridgment . ' ' An Abridg- ment of what ? ' ' That , ' she replied , you must tell me , my 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 ...
Page 41
... wish to cure of his amorous passion . " God knows I durst as well en- counter death as disturb Mr. Thrale's loveletters or his building plans . The next grand agony was seeing him send out cards of invitation to a concert and supper on ...
... wish to cure of his amorous passion . " God knows I durst as well en- counter death as disturb Mr. Thrale's loveletters or his building plans . The next grand agony was seeing him send out cards of invitation to a concert and supper on ...
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... wish all that such merit and virtue , & c . & c . & c . " JACKSON , " Comptroller of the Foreign Post Office . ' " He had directed the letter to my maid ! " We left our cards with this gentleman as soon as * Yet he wrote to commend her ...
... wish all that such merit and virtue , & c . & c . & c . " JACKSON , " Comptroller of the Foreign Post Office . ' " He had directed the letter to my maid ! " We left our cards with this gentleman as soon as * Yet he wrote to commend her ...
Page 56
... wish that every doubt of his honour and of my happiness should be dispelled ; so that whilst our ladies and Madame D'Arblay , that was Miss Burney , and Baretti , and all the low Italians of the Haymarket who hated my husband , were ...
... wish that every doubt of his honour and of my happiness should be dispelled ; so that whilst our ladies and Madame D'Arblay , that was Miss Burney , and Baretti , and all the low Italians of the Haymarket who hated my husband , were ...
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