Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale), Volume 1Ticknor and Fields, 1861 - 531 pages |
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Hester Lynch Piozzi Abraham Hayward. It was fortunate that the handwriting compensated for the hands ; and as she attached ... hand is almost the only sign of blood which aristocracy can generate . " Her Bath friend appeals to a miniature ...
Hester Lynch Piozzi Abraham Hayward. It was fortunate that the handwriting compensated for the hands ; and as she attached ... hand is almost the only sign of blood which aristocracy can generate . " Her Bath friend appeals to a miniature ...
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... hand ; but I would not give myself the trouble to go in quest of it . ' There was no arguing with him at the moment . Some time afterwards he said , ' Lord March- mont will call on me , and then I shall call on Lord Marchmont . ' Mrs ...
... hand ; but I would not give myself the trouble to go in quest of it . ' There was no arguing with him at the moment . Some time afterwards he said , ' Lord March- mont will call on me , and then I shall call on Lord Marchmont . ' Mrs ...
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... hand a Latin epigram into idiomatic English . 66 Mary Aston , " said Johnson , " was a beauty and a scholar , and a wit and a whig ; and she talked all in praise of liberty ; and so I made this epigram upon her . She was the loveliest ...
... hand a Latin epigram into idiomatic English . 66 Mary Aston , " said Johnson , " was a beauty and a scholar , and a wit and a whig ; and she talked all in praise of liberty ; and so I made this epigram upon her . She was the loveliest ...
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... hand , and clapping him on the back with the other , cried out , 66 Ah , Master Johnson , this is no time to be thinking about hats . " ' No , no , Sir , " replied the Doctor , " hats are of no use now , as you say , - 66 * Miss Lætitia ...
... hand , and clapping him on the back with the other , cried out , 66 Ah , Master Johnson , this is no time to be thinking about hats . " ' No , no , Sir , " replied the Doctor , " hats are of no use now , as you say , - 66 * Miss Lætitia ...
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... hand now . " On Boswell's adding that he wished he had , Mrs. Thrale writes : " Boswell had leisure for curiosity : ministers had not . Boswell would have been equally amused by his failure as by his success ; but to Lord North there ...
... hand now . " On Boswell's adding that he wished he had , Mrs. Thrale writes : " Boswell had leisure for curiosity : ministers had not . Boswell would have been equally amused by his failure as by his success ; but to Lord North there ...
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