Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale), Volume 1Ticknor and Fields, 1861 - 531 pages |
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Page 243
... epigram was handed about to ridicule Sir Thomas Rumbold : - " When Mackreith lived ' mong Arthur's crew , He cried , Here , Rumbold , black my shoe ; And Rumbold answered , Yea , Bob . But when returned from Asia's land , He proudly ...
... epigram was handed about to ridicule Sir Thomas Rumbold : - " When Mackreith lived ' mong Arthur's crew , He cried , Here , Rumbold , black my shoe ; And Rumbold answered , Yea , Bob . But when returned from Asia's land , He proudly ...
Page 260
... epigrams ready , composed by the fashionable author , your hapless brother Aboul . Favored by one society , therefore , per- secuted by another ; adored by one set of ignorant females , tor- mented by another set ; stared at by a ...
... epigrams ready , composed by the fashionable author , your hapless brother Aboul . Favored by one society , therefore , per- secuted by another ; adored by one set of ignorant females , tor- mented by another set ; stared at by a ...
Page 275
... EPIGRAMS . We were speaking the other day of the famous epigram in Ausonius : " Infelix Dido , nulli bene nupta marito , Hoc moriente fugis , hoc fugiente peris . " Two lords , in vain , unlucky Dido tries , One dead , she flies the ...
... EPIGRAMS . We were speaking the other day of the famous epigram in Ausonius : " Infelix Dido , nulli bene nupta marito , Hoc moriente fugis , hoc fugiente peris . " Two lords , in vain , unlucky Dido tries , One dead , she flies the ...
Page 277
... epigram im- proviso : - Volto e crin hai di Sultana , Perchè mai mi vien disdetto , Sodducente Mussulmana Di gittarti il fazzoletto ? of which I can give no better imitation than the following : While turbaned head and plumage high A ...
... epigram im- proviso : - Volto e crin hai di Sultana , Perchè mai mi vien disdetto , Sodducente Mussulmana Di gittarti il fazzoletto ? of which I can give no better imitation than the following : While turbaned head and plumage high A ...
Page 280
... epigram : - " Ah ! s'il est vrai que Buffon perd les yeux , Que le jour se refuse au foyer des lumières : La nature à la fin punit les curieux , Qui pénétroient tous ses mystères . " The Abate Bossi translated it thus : — " Ah ! s'è ver ...
... epigram : - " Ah ! s'il est vrai que Buffon perd les yeux , Que le jour se refuse au foyer des lumières : La nature à la fin punit les curieux , Qui pénétroient tous ses mystères . " The Abate Bossi translated it thus : — " Ah ! s'è ver ...
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