Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale), Volume 1Ticknor and Fields, 1861 - 531 pages |
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... hear pity lavished on a family reduced by losses to exchange a palace for a comfortable cottage ; and when condolence was demanded for a lady of rank in mourn- ing for a baby , he contrasted her with a washerwoman with half Dr. Burney ...
... hear pity lavished on a family reduced by losses to exchange a palace for a comfortable cottage ; and when condolence was demanded for a lady of rank in mourn- ing for a baby , he contrasted her with a washerwoman with half Dr. Burney ...
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... Hear this now , and laugh if you dare . We all sat composed as at a funeral . " This resembles the influence exercised by the " great com- moner " over the House of Commons . An instance being men- tioned of his throwing an adversary ...
... Hear this now , and laugh if you dare . We all sat composed as at a funeral . " This resembles the influence exercised by the " great com- moner " over the House of Commons . An instance being men- tioned of his throwing an adversary ...
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... hear you , is always to hear wit and to see virtue . " He would not suffer her to be lightly spoken of in his pres- ence , nor permit his name to be coupled jocularly with hers . " I yesterday told him , " says Boswell , when they were ...
... hear you , is always to hear wit and to see virtue . " He would not suffer her to be lightly spoken of in his pres- ence , nor permit his name to be coupled jocularly with hers . " I yesterday told him , " says Boswell , when they were ...
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... hear that matter is settled at all to your satisfaction . His letter and remittance came while I was there to - day . . . . . Careless , of the Blue Posts , ' has turned refractory , and applied to Hoare's people , who have sent him in ...
... hear that matter is settled at all to your satisfaction . His letter and remittance came while I was there to - day . . . . . Careless , of the Blue Posts , ' has turned refractory , and applied to Hoare's people , who have sent him in ...
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... hear that Mrs. Thrale is disencumbered of her brewhouse , and that it seemed to the purchaser so far from an evil that he was content to give for it £ 135,000 . Is the nation ruined ? " Marginal note : " I suppose he was neither glad ...
... hear that Mrs. Thrale is disencumbered of her brewhouse , and that it seemed to the purchaser so far from an evil that he was content to give for it £ 135,000 . Is the nation ruined ? " Marginal note : " I suppose he was neither glad ...
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Page 64 - in love and in hatred, was composed of such opposite and contradictory materials as never before met in the human mind. This is the reason why folk are never weary of talking, reading, and writing about a man — " ' So various that he seemed to be, Not one, but all mankind's epitome.'
Page 389 - much as the sight of his Sophia. " E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries! E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires! " The Saturday before Mr. Thrale was taken ill — Saturday, 19th
Page 362 - So wide they stood, and like a furnace-mouth Cast forth redounding smoke and ruddy flame. 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 height, And time, and place are lost.
Page 15 - come no more behind your scenes, Davy; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities." The proneness of his imagination to wander in this forbidden field is unwittingly betrayed by his remarking at Sky, in support of the doctrine that animal substances are less cleanly than
Page 113 - what are houses ? Only dirt or wet or dry. " ' Should the guardian friend or mother Tell the woes of wilful waste; Scorn their counsel, scorn their pother — You can hang or drown at last.'" These verses were addressed to Thrale's nephew, Sir John Lade, in August, 1780. They bear a strong resemblance to some of
Page 302 - there is no one to sit down at it, or stand behind a carriage and cry Go on with an air, when no lady listens and no carriage can be found,— " ' Where the gilt chariot never marks the way, Where none learn Ombre, none e'er taste Bohea. '
Page 73 - One of the two instances of Mrs. Piozzi's inaccuracy is as follows : " He once bade a very celebrated lady (Hannah More) who praised him with too much zeal perhaps, or perhaps too strong an emphasis (which always offended him) consider what her flattery was worth before she choked him with it.
Page 311 - gay salon, we are even trying to go beyond them if possible. The description brought me by a friend was so eloquent it reminded me of Milton's devils building and lighting up with gas their pandemonium: — " Nigh on the plain in many cells prepared, That underneath had veins of liquid fire Sluiced from the lake,
Page 14 - re a dunce." When she some time afterwards mentioned this to him, he said, with equal truth and politeness, " Madam, if I had thought so, I certainly should not have said it." He did not come off so well on another occasion, when the presence of women
Page 284 - years of life brings nothing new, But like a sieve lets every blessing through: Some joy still lost, as each vain year runs o'er. And all we gain, some sad reflection more. Is this a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear 'T is but the funeral of the former year.