Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale), Volume 1Ticknor and Fields, 1861 - 531 pages |
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... Johnson loved a leg of pork , And hearty on it would his grinders work : He liked to eat it so much overdone , That one might shake the flesh from off the bone . A veal pye too , with sugar crammed and plums , Was wondrous grateful to ...
... Johnson loved a leg of pork , And hearty on it would his grinders work : He liked to eat it so much overdone , That one might shake the flesh from off the bone . A veal pye too , with sugar crammed and plums , Was wondrous grateful to ...
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... Johnson's hospi- tality as soon as he had got a house to cover them . " It was the home of the most extraordinary assemblage of inmates that ever was brought together . At the head of the establishment he had placed an old lady named ...
... Johnson's hospi- tality as soon as he had got a house to cover them . " It was the home of the most extraordinary assemblage of inmates that ever was brought together . At the head of the establishment he had placed an old lady named ...
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... Johnson was in the zenith of his fame when literature , politics , and fashion began to blend together again by hardly perceptible shades , like the colors in shot - silk , as they had partially done in the Augustan age of Queen Anne ...
... Johnson was in the zenith of his fame when literature , politics , and fashion began to blend together again by hardly perceptible shades , like the colors in shot - silk , as they had partially done in the Augustan age of Queen Anne ...
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... Johnson bluntly denied it . " I am sure , ” she re- joined , " they have affected me . " " Why , " said Johnson , smiling and rolling himself about , " that is because , dearest , you're a dunce . " When she some time afterwards ...
... Johnson bluntly denied it . " I am sure , ” she re- joined , " they have affected me . " " Why , " said Johnson , smiling and rolling himself about , " that is because , dearest , you're a dunce . " When she some time afterwards ...
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... Johnson . ' Yes , Sir . But I suppose he had her face washed , and put clean clothes on her . ' Then , looking very ... Johnson's character that he was extremely fond of female society ; so fond , indeed , that on coming to London he was ...
... Johnson . ' Yes , Sir . But I suppose he had her face washed , and put clean clothes on her . ' Then , looking very ... Johnson's character that he was extremely fond of female society ; so fond , indeed , that on coming to London he was ...
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