Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale), Volume 1Ticknor and Fields, 1861 - 531 pages |
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Page 75
... once more talk * to- gether . If you have abandoned your children and your religion , God forgive your wickedness ... once more see you . I was , I once was , Madam , most truly yours , " SAM . JOHNSON . " July 2 , 1784 . " I will come ...
... once more talk * to- gether . If you have abandoned your children and your religion , God forgive your wickedness ... once more see you . I was , I once was , Madam , most truly yours , " SAM . JOHNSON . " July 2 , 1784 . " I will come ...
Page 91
... once an account is at all varied in one circum- stance , it may by degrees be varied so as to be totally different from what really happened . ' Our lively hostess , whose fancy was impatient of the rein , fidgeted at this , and ...
... once an account is at all varied in one circum- stance , it may by degrees be varied so as to be totally different from what really happened . ' Our lively hostess , whose fancy was impatient of the rein , fidgeted at this , and ...
Page 93
... once admits and accounts for the inferiority of her own collection of anecdotes , when she denounces " a trick which I have seen played on common occasions , of sitting stead- ily down at the other end of the room , to write at the ...
... once admits and accounts for the inferiority of her own collection of anecdotes , when she denounces " a trick which I have seen played on common occasions , of sitting stead- ily down at the other end of the room , to write at the ...
Page 94
... once spitted like larks and roasted for Presto's sup- per ? ' . Presto was the dog that lay under the table . " To this Boswell opposes the version given by Baretti , in the course of an angry invective , which Mr. Croker justly ...
... once spitted like larks and roasted for Presto's sup- per ? ' . Presto was the dog that lay under the table . " To this Boswell opposes the version given by Baretti , in the course of an angry invective , which Mr. Croker justly ...
Page 95
... once heard him say a severe thing to any one ; and many others can attest the same . " Ma- lone had lived very little with Johnson , and to appreciate his evidence , we should know what he and Boswell would agree to call a severe thing .
... once heard him say a severe thing to any one ; and many others can attest the same . " Ma- lone had lived very little with Johnson , and to appreciate his evidence , we should know what he and Boswell would agree to call a severe thing .
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