Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 479 pages |
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... write them , were purely accidental . During the last fifty years of her life , she had made a collection of pocket - books , in which it was her constant practice to write down her conversations and anecdotes , as well as her remarks ...
... write them , were purely accidental . During the last fifty years of her life , she had made a collection of pocket - books , in which it was her constant practice to write down her conversations and anecdotes , as well as her remarks ...
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... write in it all the little anecdotes which might come to my knowledge , all the observations I might make or hear , all the verses never likely to be published , and , in fine , everything that struck me at the time . Mr. Thrale has now ...
... write in it all the little anecdotes which might come to my knowledge , all the observations I might make or hear , all the verses never likely to be published , and , in fine , everything that struck me at the time . Mr. Thrale has now ...
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... write a letter to my uncle Robert who had lately 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 ...
... write a letter to my uncle Robert who had lately 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 ...
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... at dinner to - day : do you know how to spell Clough ? " " No , " was the reply ; " I never heard the name ; but if it had been spelt like buff , you would not have asked me the question . They write it CHILDISH REMINISCENCES . 11.
... at dinner to - day : do you know how to spell Clough ? " " No , " was the reply ; " I never heard the name ; but if it had been spelt like buff , you would not have asked me the question . They write it CHILDISH REMINISCENCES . 11.
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Hester Lynch Piozzi Abraham Hayward. not have asked me the question . They write it perhaps as we write enough c , 1 , o , u , g , h . What baby anecdotes are these , you cry . ' Tis so , but your poor friend certainly ceased being ...
Hester Lynch Piozzi Abraham Hayward. not have asked me the question . They write it perhaps as we write enough c , 1 , o , u , g , h . What baby anecdotes are these , you cry . ' Tis so , but your poor friend certainly ceased being ...
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Adieu admired amuse anecdotes Bath beautiful believe Bishop Boswell brother Brynbella Burney called character charming cries Daniel Lysons daughter dear Sir James death delight dinner Doctor Johnson epigram fancy father favourite feel gout H. L. PIOZZI happy hear heard heart honour hope husband Italy kind King Lady laugh letter live London look Lord Byron Lord Lyttelton Lutwyche Lysons marriage married Miles Peter Andrews mind Miss Thrale mother never night once Paradise Lost Penzance perhaps play poor Pope portrait praise pretty recollect remember replied Salusbury Samuel Lysons scarce sent Siddons Sir James Fellowes Sir Robert Cotton story Streatham Park suppose sure talk tell thing thought Thrale told verses virtue whilst wish wonder Wraxall write written wrote young