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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... seems to have made a lasting impression on his hostess . Referring to a couplet in " The Vanity of Human Wishes " : " Through all his veins the fever of renown Spreads from the strong contagion of the gown , " " he had desired me ( says ...
... seems to have made a lasting impression on his hostess . Referring to a couplet in " The Vanity of Human Wishes " : " Through all his veins the fever of renown Spreads from the strong contagion of the gown , " " he had desired me ( says ...
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... seem to unfit him for civilised society , including his gesticulations , his rollings , his puffings , his mutterings , and the ravenous eagerness with which he devoured his food , increased the interest which his new associates took in ...
... seem to unfit him for civilised society , including his gesticulations , his rollings , his puffings , his mutterings , and the ravenous eagerness with which he devoured his food , increased the interest which his new associates took in ...
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... seem little better than a nonentity , whilst every imaginable topic was under animated discussion at his table ; for Boswell was more ready to report the husband's sayings than the wife's . In a marginal note on one of the printed ...
... seem little better than a nonentity , whilst every imaginable topic was under animated discussion at his table ; for Boswell was more ready to report the husband's sayings than the wife's . In a marginal note on one of the printed ...
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... seems not . The lines always quoted as Dryden's , beginning , ' To die is landing on some silent shore , ' are Garth's after all . " Johnson would have been still less pleased at her discovery that a line in his epitaph on Phillips ...
... seems not . The lines always quoted as Dryden's , beginning , ' To die is landing on some silent shore , ' are Garth's after all . " Johnson would have been still less pleased at her discovery that a line in his epitaph on Phillips ...
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... seems not to be a happy man , though he has every means of happiness in his power . But I think I have rarely seen a very rich man with a light heart and light ' spirits . ' 99 The concluding remark , coming from such a source , may ...
... seems not to be a happy man , though he has every means of happiness in his power . But I think I have rarely seen a very rich man with a light heart and light ' spirits . ' 99 The concluding remark , coming from such a source , may ...
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