Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale), Volume 1Ticknor and Fields, 1861 - 531 pages |
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Page 53
... keeps us two coaches , and a very fine table ; but I think our cookery very bad . Mrs. Thrale got into a convent of English nuns , and I talked with her through the grate , and I am very kindly used by the English Benedictine friars ...
... keeps us two coaches , and a very fine table ; but I think our cookery very bad . Mrs. Thrale got into a convent of English nuns , and I talked with her through the grate , and I am very kindly used by the English Benedictine friars ...
Page 57
... keep his ground . Talking as we were at tea of the magnitude of the beer vessels , he said there was one thing in Mr. Thrale's house still more extraordinary ; - meaning his wife . She gulped the pill very prettily , - so much for ...
... keep his ground . Talking as we were at tea of the magnitude of the beer vessels , he said there was one thing in Mr. Thrale's house still more extraordinary ; - meaning his wife . She gulped the pill very prettily , - so much for ...
Page 70
... keep your kind- ness for me , and I have a great mind to have Queeny's kind- ness too . " Again , December 3d , 1781 : " You have got Piozzi again , notwithstanding pretty Harriet's dire denunciations . The Italian translation which he ...
... keep your kind- ness for me , and I have a great mind to have Queeny's kind- ness too . " Again , December 3d , 1781 : " You have got Piozzi again , notwithstanding pretty Harriet's dire denunciations . The Italian translation which he ...
Page 80
... keep me out of the newspapers if you possibly can ; they have given me many a miserable hour , and my ene- mies many a merry one ; but I have not deserved public perse- cution , and am very happy to live in a place where one is free ...
... keep me out of the newspapers if you possibly can ; they have given me many a miserable hour , and my ene- mies many a merry one ; but I have not deserved public perse- cution , and am very happy to live in a place where one is free ...
Page 88
... keep my station , till God shall bid me Go in peace . " Thrale died on the 4th of April . " On Friday , April 6 ( writes Boswell ) , he ( Johnson ) carried me to dine at a club which at his desire had been lately formed at the Queen's ...
... keep my station , till God shall bid me Go in peace . " Thrale died on the 4th of April . " On Friday , April 6 ( writes Boswell ) , he ( Johnson ) carried me to dine at a club which at his desire had been lately formed at the Queen's ...
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