Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale), Volume 1Ticknor and Fields, 1861 - 531 pages |
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... MADAME PIOZZı ( loquitur ) . " Dear Doctor 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 ...
... MADAME PIOZZı ( loquitur ) . " Dear Doctor 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 ...
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... Madame D'Arblay , the menagerie was thus humorously described : " Mrs. Thrale . - Mr. Levet , I suppose , Sir , has the office of keeping the hospital in health ? for he is an apothecary . " Dr. J. - Levet , Madam , is a brutal fellow ...
... Madame D'Arblay , the menagerie was thus humorously described : " Mrs. Thrale . - Mr. Levet , I suppose , Sir , has the office of keeping the hospital in health ? for he is an apothecary . " Dr. J. - Levet , Madam , is a brutal fellow ...
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... Madame D'Arblay , " more bland and more gleeful than that of either of them , was the personal celebrity of Mrs. Thrale . Mrs. Vesey , indeed , gentle and diffident , dreamed not of any competition , but Mrs. Montagu and Mrs. Thrale had ...
... Madame D'Arblay , " more bland and more gleeful than that of either of them , was the personal celebrity of Mrs. Thrale . Mrs. Vesey , indeed , gentle and diffident , dreamed not of any competition , but Mrs. Montagu and Mrs. Thrale had ...
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... Madame d'Arblay , who alludes to them complacently , thought them his ; but he subsequently repudiated the authorship , and the editor of her Memoirs believes that they were written by Dr. Burney . They were provoked by the proneness of ...
... Madame d'Arblay , who alludes to them complacently , thought them his ; but he subsequently repudiated the authorship , and the editor of her Memoirs believes that they were written by Dr. Burney . They were provoked by the proneness of ...
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... Madame D'Arblay's account of hers confirms the no- tion that My Mistress , not My Master , was the presiding genius of the place . - " London , August ( 1778 ) . · I have now to write an account of the most consequential day I have ...
... Madame D'Arblay's account of hers confirms the no- tion that My Mistress , not My Master , was the presiding genius of the place . - " London , August ( 1778 ) . · I have now to write an account of the most consequential day I have ...
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