Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale), Volume 1Ticknor and Fields, 1861 - 531 pages |
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... young and always pretty , Always pretty , always young , Live my lovely Hetty long ! Always young and always pretty ; Long may live my lovely Hetty ! " Her marginal note in the copy of the " Anecdotes " presented by her to Sir James ...
... young and always pretty , Always pretty , always young , Live my lovely Hetty long ! Always young and always pretty ; Long may live my lovely Hetty ! " Her marginal note in the copy of the " Anecdotes " presented by her to Sir James ...
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... young , at thirty - five To herd with boys , or hoard with good threescore , I wonder people should be left alive . But since they are , that epoch is a bore . " Lady Aldborough , whose best witticisms unluckily lie under the same ...
... young , at thirty - five To herd with boys , or hoard with good threescore , I wonder people should be left alive . But since they are , that epoch is a bore . " Lady Aldborough , whose best witticisms unluckily lie under the same ...
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... young persons did in her day , as a part of dress ; and after continuing the habit for some years , discovered that it had introduced a dead yellow color into her complexion , quite unlike that of her natural skin , and that she wished ...
... young persons did in her day , as a part of dress ; and after continuing the habit for some years , discovered that it had introduced a dead yellow color into her complexion , quite unlike that of her natural skin , and that she wished ...
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... young lady who appeared at a mas- querade in Paris , habited as a Jesuit , during the height of the contention between the Jansenists and Molinists concerning free - will : " On s'étonne ici que Calviniste Eût pris l'habit de Moliniste ...
... young lady who appeared at a mas- querade in Paris , habited as a Jesuit , during the height of the contention between the Jansenists and Molinists concerning free - will : " On s'étonne ici que Calviniste Eût pris l'habit de Moliniste ...
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... Young Member's A B C , " and begins : - " A was an Althorpe , as dull as a hog : B was black Brougham , a surly cur dog : C was a Cochrane , all stripped of his lace . " What widely different associations are now awakened by these names ...
... Young Member's A B C , " and begins : - " A was an Althorpe , as dull as a hog : B was black Brougham , a surly cur dog : C was a Cochrane , all stripped of his lace . " What widely different associations are now awakened by these names ...
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