Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains “of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)”: In 2 Volumes, Volume 1Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 375 pages |
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Page 28
... admiration , with placid though high - strained intellectual exertion on the one side , and an exuberant pleasantry or classical allusion on the other ; without the smallest malice or quotation in either . " With which words , ment for ...
... admiration , with placid though high - strained intellectual exertion on the one side , and an exuberant pleasantry or classical allusion on the other ; without the smallest malice or quotation in either . " With which words , ment for ...
Page 55
... admirable poem ' The Three Warn- ings . " " Marginal note : " How sorry he is ! " Both the tale and the poem were written for a collection of " Miscellanies , " published by Mrs. Williams in that year . The character of Floretta in ...
... admirable poem ' The Three Warn- ings . " " Marginal note : " How sorry he is ! " Both the tale and the poem were written for a collection of " Miscellanies , " published by Mrs. Williams in that year . The character of Floretta in ...
Page 63
... admiration of Mrs. Thrale ; for " Evelina " ( recently published ) was the unceasing topic of exaggerated eulogy during the entire visit . Still so acute an observer could not be essentially wrong in an account of her reception , which ...
... admiration of Mrs. Thrale ; for " Evelina " ( recently published ) was the unceasing topic of exaggerated eulogy during the entire visit . Still so acute an observer could not be essentially wrong in an account of her reception , which ...
Page 81
... admiration of Johnson , and no trifling enhancement of his friends ' kindness in tolerating his eccentricities , that he seldom made allowance for his own palpable and undeniable deficiencies . As well might a blind man deny the ...
... admiration of Johnson , and no trifling enhancement of his friends ' kindness in tolerating his eccentricities , that he seldom made allowance for his own palpable and undeniable deficiencies . As well might a blind man deny the ...
Page 93
... admiration , and far be- yond the power of nineteen in twenty natives . He had also a knowledge of the solemn language and the gay , could be sublime with Johnson , or blackguard with the groom ; could dispute , could rally , could ...
... admiration , and far be- yond the power of nineteen in twenty natives . He had also a knowledge of the solemn language and the gay , could be sublime with Johnson , or blackguard with the groom ; could dispute , could rally , could ...
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