Autobiography, Letters, and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi, Volume 1Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 |
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... letter to my uncle Robert who had lately lost Lady Betty . The scheme prospered : grandmamma Salusbury * There is a tradition in the Cotton family that she could re- peat the names of most of the rivers in the world , but when asked the ...
... letter to my uncle Robert who had lately lost Lady Betty . The scheme prospered : grandmamma Salusbury * There is a tradition in the Cotton family that she could re- peat the names of most of the rivers in the world , but when asked the ...
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... letter , begged him to return and share the gaieties of Offley Place , mentioned in Retrospection , " vol . i . p . 213 : likewise , if I remember rightly , in the Travel Book ( vol . ii . ) , where I recollect the plains of Kalin ...
... letter , begged him to return and share the gaieties of Offley Place , mentioned in Retrospection , " vol . i . p . 213 : likewise , if I remember rightly , in the Travel Book ( vol . ii . ) , where I recollect the plains of Kalin ...
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... letter , perhaps , still exists in which I declared my resolution to adhere to the maxims of filial duty he had taught me , and refuse ( when I should be asked ) any offer , however tempting , that should seek to seduce me from his ...
... letter , perhaps , still exists in which I declared my resolution to adhere to the maxims of filial duty he had taught me , and refuse ( when I should be asked ) any offer , however tempting , that should seek to seduce me from his ...
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... letter , 1st vol . But God tempers every evil with some good . Such was my charming mother's firmness and such her fond attachment to us both , that our philosophical friend , embracing her , ex- claimed , that he was equally charmed by ...
... letter , 1st vol . But God tempers every evil with some good . Such was my charming mother's firmness and such her fond attachment to us both , that our philosophical friend , embracing her , ex- claimed , that he was equally charmed by ...
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... letter to our master , which only said , “ I have done my errand , and you soon shall see returned , whole , as I hope your heavy and faithful messenger , H. L T. " Perkins ' sons are now in possession of the place , their father but ...
... letter to our master , which only said , “ I have done my errand , and you soon shall see returned , whole , as I hope your heavy and faithful messenger , H. L T. " Perkins ' sons are now in possession of the place , their father but ...
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Adieu admired amuse Bath beautiful believe Bishop brother Brynbella Buonaparte Burney called character charming Daniel Lysons daughter dear Sir James death delight dinner Doctor Johnson epigram fancy father favourite feel French gout H. L. P. To Sir H. L. PIOZZI happy hear heard heart Henry Glasse HESTER LYNCH PIOZZI honour hope husband Italy kind King Lady Lallah Rookh laugh letter live London look Lord Lord Byron Lord Gwydir Lord Lyttelton Lutwyche Lysons married Meanwhile mind Miss morning mother never night once Penzance perhaps play poor Pope praise pretty recollect remember reply Salusbury Samuel Lysons scarce sent Siddons Sir James Fellowes story Streatham Park Street suppose sure talk tell thing thought Thrale told verses wish wonder write written wrote young
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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.