Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 |
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... conversations and anecdotes , as well as her remarks upon the recent publications . They were tied together and ... conversation took place at Bath on this interesting topic , I urged Mrs. Piozzi to write down some reminiscences of ...
... conversations and anecdotes , as well as her remarks upon the recent publications . They were tied together and ... conversation took place at Bath on this interesting topic , I urged Mrs. Piozzi to write down some reminiscences of ...
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... conversation of every person of almost every class with whom I have had intercourse ; my remarks on what was said ; downright facts and scandalous on dits ; per- sonal portraits and anecdotes of the characters con- cerned ; criticisms ...
... conversation of every person of almost every class with whom I have had intercourse ; my remarks on what was said ; downright facts and scandalous on dits ; per- sonal portraits and anecdotes of the characters con- cerned ; criticisms ...
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... conversation , and scarce were my infantine tears dried for leaving dear Llewenney and my half - adored uncle , before the news reached London of his sudden death by an apoplectic fit ; in consequence of which , his brother , Sir Lynch ...
... conversation , and scarce were my infantine tears dried for leaving dear Llewenney and my half - adored uncle , before the news reached London of his sudden death by an apoplectic fit ; in consequence of which , his brother , Sir Lynch ...
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... conversations ! What correspon- dences were these ! never renewed after my wedding day , October 11th , 1763. Dr. Johnson was perhaps justly offended if I even appeared to recollect them , and in my mother's presence . There was no ...
... conversations ! What correspon- dences were these ! never renewed after my wedding day , October 11th , 1763. Dr. Johnson was perhaps justly offended if I even appeared to recollect them , and in my mother's presence . There was no ...
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... conversation ) that my mind must prepare itself for controversy . The account of temptations he told me I should undergo of another kind I drove from me with unaffected laughter , but perceived that he was best pleased when I replied to ...
... conversation ) that my mind must prepare itself for controversy . The account of temptations he told me I should undergo of another kind I drove from me with unaffected laughter , but perceived that he was best pleased when I replied to ...
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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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