Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 854 pages |
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... marginal notes by Mrs. Piozzi . The Rev. Samuel Lysons , of Hempsted Court , Glou- cester , has liberally allowed me ... note - book , called " Thraliana . " Johnson thus alludes to it in a letter of September 6th , 1777 : " As you ...
... marginal notes by Mrs. Piozzi . The Rev. Samuel Lysons , of Hempsted Court , Glou- cester , has liberally allowed me ... note - book , called " Thraliana . " Johnson thus alludes to it in a letter of September 6th , 1777 : " As you ...
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... marginal note on Boswell's ac- count of her 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 ...
... marginal note on Boswell's ac- count of her 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 ...
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... margin : " Every fever burns I believe ; but Bozzy could think only on Nessus ' dirty shirt , or Dr. Johnson's . " In another marginal note she disclaims that attention to the Doctor's costume for which Boswell gives her credit , when ...
... margin : " Every fever burns I believe ; but Bozzy could think only on Nessus ' dirty shirt , or Dr. Johnson's . " In another marginal note she disclaims that attention to the Doctor's costume for which Boswell gives her credit , when ...
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... marginal notes on Boswell refer to her illustrious friend's mode of eating . On his re- ported remark , that " a dog will take a small bit of meat as readily as a large , when both are before him , " she adds , " which Johnson would ...
... marginal notes on Boswell refer to her illustrious friend's mode of eating . On his re- ported remark , that " a dog will take a small bit of meat as readily as a large , when both are before him , " she adds , " which Johnson would ...
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... marginal note in the copy of the " Anecdotes " presented by her to Sir James Fellowes in 1816 is : - " I heard these verses sung at Mr. Thomas's by three voices not three weeks ago . " It was in the eighth year of their acquaintance ...
... marginal note in the copy of the " Anecdotes " presented by her to Sir James Fellowes in 1816 is : - " I heard these verses sung at Mr. Thomas's by three voices not three weeks ago . " It was in the eighth year of their acquaintance ...
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