Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 479 pages |
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... write them , were purely accidental . During the last fifty years of her life , she had made a collection of pocket - books , in which it was her constant practice to write down her conversations and anecdotes , as well as her remarks ...
... write them , were purely accidental . During the last fifty years of her life , she had made a collection of pocket - books , in which it was her constant practice to write down her conversations and anecdotes , as well as her remarks ...
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... write in it all the little anecdotes which might come to my knowledge , all the observations I might make or hear , all the verses never likely to be published , and , in fine , everything that struck me at the time . Mr. Thrale 6 has ...
... write in it all the little anecdotes which might come to my knowledge , all the observations I might make or hear , all the verses never likely to be published , and , in fine , everything that struck me at the time . Mr. Thrale 6 has ...
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... write a 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 ...
... write a 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 ...
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... dinner to - day : do you know how to spell Clough ? " " No , " was the reply ; " I never heard not have asked me the question . They write it the name ; but if it had been spelt like buff , you would CHILDISH REMINISCENCES . 11.
... dinner to - day : do you know how to spell Clough ? " " No , " was the reply ; " I never heard not have asked me the question . They write it the name ; but if it had been spelt like buff , you would CHILDISH REMINISCENCES . 11.
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Hester Lynch Piozzi Abraham Hayward. not have asked me the question . They write it perhaps as we write enough - c , 1 , o , u , g , h . " What baby anecdotes are these , you cry . ' Tis so , but your poor friend certainly ceased being ...
Hester Lynch Piozzi Abraham Hayward. not have asked me the question . They write it perhaps as we write enough - c , 1 , o , u , g , h . " What baby anecdotes are these , you cry . ' Tis so , but your poor friend certainly ceased being ...
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Adieu admired amuse anecdotes Bath beautiful believe Bishop Blessed Virgin Mary Boswell brother Brynbella Burney called character Charles Kemble charming Daniel Lysons daughter dear Sir James death delight dinner Doctor Johnson fancy father favourite feel French glad gout H. L. PIOZZI happy hear heard heart honour hope husband Iphigenia Italy kind King Lady Laodice laugh letter live London look Lord Lord Byron Lord Lyttelton Lutwyche Lysons Lyttelton marriage married Milton mind Miss Thrale mother never night once Penzance perhaps poor Pope portrait praise pretty Proserpina recollect remember replied Salusbury Samuel Lysons scarce sent Siddons Sir James Fellowes story Streatham Park Street suppose sure taste tell thing thought Thrale told verses wife wish wonder Wraxall write written wrote young