Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 854 pages |
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Page 9
... husband's family is curious and cha- racteristic : " Edmund Halsey was son to a miller at St. Albans , with whom he quarrelled , like Ralph in the Maid of the Mill , ' and ran away to London with a very few shillings in his pocket ...
... husband's family is curious and cha- racteristic : " Edmund Halsey was son to a miller at St. Albans , with whom he quarrelled , like Ralph in the Maid of the Mill , ' and ran away to London with a very few shillings in his pocket ...
Page 14
... husband called on Johnson one morning in Johnson's Court , Fleet Street , he gave way to such an uncontrolled burst of despair regarding the world to come , that Mr. Thrale tried to stop his mouth by placing one hand before it , and ...
... husband called on Johnson one morning in Johnson's Court , Fleet Street , he gave way to such an uncontrolled burst of despair regarding the world to come , that Mr. Thrale tried to stop his mouth by placing one hand before it , and ...
Page 49
... husband's sayings than the wife's . In a marginal note on one of the printed letters she says : " Mr. Thrale was a very merry talking man in 1760 ; but the distress of 1772 , which affected his health , his hopes , and his whole soul ...
... husband's sayings than the wife's . In a marginal note on one of the printed letters she says : " Mr. Thrale was a very merry talking man in 1760 ; but the distress of 1772 , which affected his health , his hopes , and his whole soul ...
Page 51
... husband might be expected to strike in , as when Johnson was declaiming paradoxically against action in oratory : " Action can have no effect on reasonable minds . It may augment noise , but it never can enforce argument . " Mrs. Thrale ...
... husband might be expected to strike in , as when Johnson was declaiming paradoxically against action in oratory : " Action can have no effect on reasonable minds . It may augment noise , but it never can enforce argument . " Mrs. Thrale ...
Page 53
... husband's love by silence , had its source in the same farrago ; and that there is an odd similitude between my Lord's trick upon Sly the Tinker , in Shakspeare's ' Taming of the Shrew , ' and some stuff I have been reading in Burton ...
... husband's love by silence , had its source in the same farrago ; and that there is an odd similitude between my Lord's trick upon Sly the Tinker , in Shakspeare's ' Taming of the Shrew , ' and some stuff I have been reading in Burton ...
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