The Piozzi Letters: 1817-1821University of Delaware Press, 1989 |
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Adbury House Address Sir James Adieu April August Bath and Cheltenham Bath Chronicle beautiful Bristol Brother Brynbella called Charles Charlotte Cheltenham Gazette Clifton Commonplace Book daughter dearest Death December Doctor Dorset Dowry Square duke Eliza O'Neill February France Friend George Gibbes happy Henry Hester Lynch Piozzi HLP recorded HLP to JF HLP to JSPS HLP to LC HLP's Pocket Book hope Hyde Collection January July June Kirkwall Lady Fellowes Lady Salusbury Letter live London Lord Lord Gwydir March married Miss Williams Morning Post née never Night November October Penzance Place Pocket Book poor Postmark BATH pretty Princeton University Library Queen Reverend Royal September shewed Sir James Fellowes Streatham Park Street tell Text Princeton University Theatre Theatre Royal Thing Thomas Thrale Thraliana vols Wales Weston super Mare wife William Augustus Conway wish wonder write wrote
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Page 134 - Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine, that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field...
Page 202 - Age is dark and unlovely ; it is like the glimmering light of the moon when it shines through broken clouds, and the mist is on the hills : the blast of the north is on the plain ; the traveller shrinks in the midst of his journey.
Page 201 - ... more; whether thy yellow hair flows on the eastern clouds, or thou tremblest at the gates of the west. But thou art perhaps like me for a season ; thy years will have an end. Thou shalt sleep in thy clouds careless of the voice of the morning. Exult, then, O sun, in the strength of thy youth!
Page 252 - To-day deep thoughts resolve with me to drench In mirth that after no repenting draws ; Let Euclid rest, and Archimedes pause, And what the Swede intend, and what the French.
Page 209 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?
Page 33 - She was in her eighty-second year, and yet owed not her death to age nor to natural decay, but to the effects of a fall in a journey from Penzance to Clifton. On her eightieth birthday she gave a great ball, concert, and supper, in the public rooms at Bath, to upwards of two hundred persons, and the ball she...
Page 279 - A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows; One should our interests and our passions be; My friend must hate the man that injures me.
Page 167 - Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains.
Page 64 - When I think of death, Mr Morton, as a thing worth thinking of, it is in the hope of pressing one day some well-fought and hard-won field of battle, and dying with the shout of victory in my ear — that would be worth dying for, and more, it would be worth having lived for...
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