Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 |
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... player . I was just six years old , and we sate in the stage - box , where I kept on studying the part with all my little power , not at all distracted by the lights or company , which they fancied would take my attention . The ...
... player . I was just six years old , and we sate in the stage - box , where I kept on studying the part with all my little power , not at all distracted by the lights or company , which they fancied would take my attention . The ...
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... play , and I remember composing it in the coach , as I was driving up and down after Lancaster : but my business in Southwark was of far severer import . Some fellow had incited our master to begin a new and expensive building to the ...
... play , and I remember composing it in the coach , as I was driving up and down after Lancaster : but my business in Southwark was of far severer import . Some fellow had incited our master to begin a new and expensive building to the ...
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... played with ; a little perhaps diverting herself by mortifying me , but there was no harm done , I am confident . He thought her a thing at least semi - celestial ; had he once found her out a mere mortal woman , his flame would have ...
... played with ; a little perhaps diverting herself by mortifying me , but there was no harm done , I am confident . He thought her a thing at least semi - celestial ; had he once found her out a mere mortal woman , his flame would have ...
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... play upon the natives , ridiculing their superstitions , & c . , I could bear no more of what they called philo- sophy , the less perhaps because they hoped I should be pleased with such discourse , and much amazed our Milanese friends ...
... play upon the natives , ridiculing their superstitions , & c . , I could bear no more of what they called philo- sophy , the less perhaps because they hoped I should be pleased with such discourse , and much amazed our Milanese friends ...
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... played off their best airs , and cast kind looks on his introducers from time to time : till the fellow wearied , as Johnson says , and disgusted with his ill - acted character , burst out on a sudden as they sate at tea , and cried ...
... played off their best airs , and cast kind looks on his introducers from time to time : till the fellow wearied , as Johnson says , and disgusted with his ill - acted character , burst out on a sudden as they sate at tea , and cried ...
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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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