Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 |
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... Lord Egmont , and Mary Pennant of Downing , great aunt to the great naturalist . My mother claimed Hester Salusbury , heiress of Lleweney Hall , as one of her grandmothers by marriage with Sir Robert Cotton ; Vere Herbert , only ...
... Lord Egmont , and Mary Pennant of Downing , great aunt to the great naturalist . My mother claimed Hester Salusbury , heiress of Lleweney Hall , as one of her grandmothers by marriage with Sir Robert Cotton ; Vere Herbert , only ...
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... Lord Kirkwall's father . * But it will bring matters nearer home to tell you that my mother , who had 10,000l . , an ... Lord Kirkwall sold the property to the Rev. Edward Hughes , whose son , William Lewis Hughes , the present possessor ...
... Lord Kirkwall's father . * But it will bring matters nearer home to tell you that my mother , who had 10,000l . , an ... Lord Kirkwall sold the property to the Rev. Edward Hughes , whose son , William Lewis Hughes , the present possessor ...
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... Lord Berwick's family , —and David Garrick was there , and made me sit on his lap , feeding me with cates , & c .; because having asked some one who sate near why they called those things that blew up , Gerbes in the bill of fare , I ...
... Lord Berwick's family , —and David Garrick was there , and made me sit on his lap , feeding me with cates , & c .; because having asked some one who sate near why they called those things that blew up , Gerbes in the bill of fare , I ...
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... Lord Torrington her mother's brother , by Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton for his son Thomas , the child he educated himself in the Tower of London , when confined there on account of his correspondence with the Electress Sophia . * * Sir ...
... Lord Torrington her mother's brother , by Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton for his son Thomas , the child he educated himself in the Tower of London , when confined there on account of his correspondence with the Electress Sophia . * * Sir ...
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... Lord Combermere , burned them . I have looked in Lord Orford's miscellaneous works , and perceive that he and my friend Wraxall are of a mind about Sophia , of whose letters I can recollect only the odd signature , writing her name with ...
... Lord Combermere , burned them . I have looked in Lord Orford's miscellaneous works , and perceive that he and my friend Wraxall are of a mind about Sophia , of whose letters I can recollect only the odd signature , writing her name with ...
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Page 453 - How happy is the blameless vestal's lot ? The world forgetting, by the world forgot...
Page 111 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Page 444 - Before their eyes in sudden view appear The secrets of the hoary deep, a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and highth. And time and place are lost...
Page 158 - ... it would be hard to find a man so well entitled to notice by his wit that ever delighted so much in talking of his money.
Page 336 - Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours : Safety consists not in escape From dangers of a frightful shape ; An earthquake may be bid to spare The man that's strangled by a hair. Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread, Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow.
Page 136 - This poem has yet a grosser fault. With these trifling fictions are mingled the most awful and sacred truths, such as ought never to be polluted with such irreverend combinations.
Page 325 - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country'].
Page 164 - I'll quit my prey, And grant a kind reprieve; In hopes you'll have no more to say But when I call again this way, Well pleased the world will leave.
Page 166 - I know, cries Death, that at the best, I seldom am a welcome guest; But don't be captious, friend, at least; I little thought you'd still be able To stump about your farm and stable; Your years have run to a great length, I wish you joy though of your strength. Hold, says the farmer, not so fast, I have been lame these four years past. And no great wonder...
Page 385 - The ascending pile Stood fixed her stately height, and straight the doors, Opening their brazen folds discover, wide Within, her ample spaces o'er the smooth And level pavement ; from the arched roof, Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky.
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| Title | Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) Volume 1 of Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi, Hester Lynch Piozzi |
| Author | Hester Lynch Piozzi |
| Editor | Abraham Hayward |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 8 Aug 2007 |
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