Autobiography, Letters, and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi, Volume 1Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 |
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Page 132
... seems to imply something encomiastic , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse concerning his government , indeed , with verse intermixed . " ( Vol . ix . p . 42. ) It is a discourse of energetic satire , and Burke was busy ...
... seems to imply something encomiastic , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse concerning his government , indeed , with verse intermixed . " ( Vol . ix . p . 42. ) It is a discourse of energetic satire , and Burke was busy ...
Page 150
... seems to me not original . I have read it as recom- mended in the same scornful manner by some states- man . Oh , it was Lord Oxford , who being applied to , very seriously as it appeared , advised the youth who was his dependent ( Mr ...
... seems to me not original . I have read it as recom- mended in the same scornful manner by some states- man . Oh , it was Lord Oxford , who being applied to , very seriously as it appeared , advised the youth who was his dependent ( Mr ...
Page 158
... seem to run through all their ( Swift's and Pope's ) notions . Natural history is their perpetual scorn . . . . I guess not why . To wander thro ' a wilderness of moss has at least this claim to preference , that something certain may ...
... seem to run through all their ( Swift's and Pope's ) notions . Natural history is their perpetual scorn . . . . I guess not why . To wander thro ' a wilderness of moss has at least this claim to preference , that something certain may ...
Page 210
... 1802 . Mark how the weeping willow stands , Near the recording stone ; It seems to blame our idle hands , And mourn the moments flown . Thus conscience holds our fancy fast , With care too 210 MISCELLANIES . Occasional Verses •
... 1802 . Mark how the weeping willow stands , Near the recording stone ; It seems to blame our idle hands , And mourn the moments flown . Thus conscience holds our fancy fast , With care too 210 MISCELLANIES . Occasional Verses •
Page 224
... seems , imagined us still at Milan . " " Holy Thursday ( 1787 ) , Hanover Square . " DEAR MR . LYSONS . - I have found about forty letters of Johnson's in the old trunk , which may very well be printed ; some of them exceedingly long ...
... seems , imagined us still at Milan . " " Holy Thursday ( 1787 ) , Hanover Square . " DEAR MR . LYSONS . - I have found about forty letters of Johnson's in the old trunk , which may very well be printed ; some of them exceedingly long ...
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Adieu admired amuse Bath beautiful believe Bishop brother Brynbella Buonaparte Burney called character charming Daniel Lysons daughter dear Sir James death delight dinner Doctor Johnson epigram fancy father favourite feel French gout H. L. P. To Sir H. L. PIOZZI happy hear heard heart Henry Glasse HESTER LYNCH PIOZZI honour hope husband Italy kind King Lady Lallah Rookh laugh letter live London look Lord Lord Byron Lord Gwydir Lord Lyttelton Lutwyche Lysons married Meanwhile mind Miss morning mother never night once Penzance perhaps play poor Pope praise pretty recollect remember reply Salusbury Samuel Lysons scarce sent Siddons Sir James Fellowes story Streatham Park Street suppose sure talk tell thing thought Thrale told verses wish wonder write written wrote young
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Page 453 - How happy is the blameless vestal's lot ? The world forgetting, by the world forgot...
Page 111 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Page 444 - Before their eyes in sudden view appear The secrets of the hoary deep, a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and highth. And time and place are lost...
Page 158 - ... it would be hard to find a man so well entitled to notice by his wit that ever delighted so much in talking of his money.
Page 336 - Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours : Safety consists not in escape From dangers of a frightful shape ; An earthquake may be bid to spare The man that's strangled by a hair. Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread, Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow.
Page 136 - This poem has yet a grosser fault. With these trifling fictions are mingled the most awful and sacred truths, such as ought never to be polluted with such irreverend combinations.
Page 325 - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country'].
Page 164 - I'll quit my prey, And grant a kind reprieve; In hopes you'll have no more to say But when I call again this way, Well pleased the world will leave.
Page 166 - I know, cries Death, that at the best, I seldom am a welcome guest; But don't be captious, friend, at least; I little thought you'd still be able To stump about your farm and stable; Your years have run to a great length, I wish you joy though of your strength. Hold, says the farmer, not so fast, I have been lame these four years past. And no great wonder...
Page 385 - The ascending pile Stood fixed her stately height, and straight the doors, Opening their brazen folds discover, wide Within, her ample spaces o'er the smooth And level pavement ; from the arched roof, Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky.