Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains “of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)”: In 2 Volumes, Volume 1Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 375 pages |
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... father , extending over nearly twenty - five years ( from 1797 to the year of her death ) and exceeding a hundred in number . These have been of the greatest service in enabling me to complete and verify the summary of that period of ...
... father , extending over nearly twenty - five years ( from 1797 to the year of her death ) and exceeding a hundred in number . These have been of the greatest service in enabling me to complete and verify the summary of that period of ...
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... father and uncle , the Rev. Daniel Lysons and Mr. Samuel Lysons . From 1776 to 1809 Mrs. Piozzi kept a copious diary and note - book , called " Thraliana . " Johnson thus alludes to it in a letter of September 6th , 1777 : " As you have ...
... father and uncle , the Rev. Daniel Lysons and Mr. Samuel Lysons . From 1776 to 1809 Mrs. Piozzi kept a copious diary and note - book , called " Thraliana . " Johnson thus alludes to it in a letter of September 6th , 1777 : " As you have ...
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... Parliament for the borough of South- wark . Johnson used to give this account of the rise of Mr. Thrale's father : ' He worked at six shillings a · week for twenty years in the great brewery , which B 4 INTRODUCTION TO JOHNSON .
... Parliament for the borough of South- wark . Johnson used to give this account of the rise of Mr. Thrale's father : ' He worked at six shillings a · week for twenty years in the great brewery , which B 4 INTRODUCTION TO JOHNSON .
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... father , after he left college , was splendid ; not less than a thousand a year . This , in a man who had risen as old Thrale did , was a very extraordinary instance of generosity . He used to say , ' If this young dog does not find so ...
... father , after he left college , was splendid ; not less than a thousand a year . This , in a man who had risen as old Thrale did , was a very extraordinary instance of generosity . He used to say , ' If this young dog does not find so ...
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... father ) ; said he would make a man of him , and did so : but made him work very hard , and treated him very roughly , Halsey * In " Thraliana " she says : " strolled to London with only 4s . 6d . in his pocket . " being more proud than ...
... father ) ; said he would make a man of him , and did so : but made him work very hard , and treated him very roughly , Halsey * In " Thraliana " she says : " strolled to London with only 4s . 6d . in his pocket . " being more proud than ...
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