Autobiography, letters and literary remains of mrs. Piozzi, ed., with notes, by A. Hayward, Volume 1 |
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... once . What he meant by hungry is not easy to explain , for his every day manner of eating was that of a half - famished man . When at table , he was totally absorbed in the business of the moment ; his looks were riveted to his plate ...
... once . What he meant by hungry is not easy to explain , for his every day manner of eating was that of a half - famished man . When at table , he was totally absorbed in the business of the moment ; his looks were riveted to his plate ...
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... once travelled with him relates , " The coach halted as usual for dinner , which seemed to be a deeply interesting business to Johnson , who vehemently attacked a dish of stewed carp , using his fingers only in feeding himself . " VOL ...
... once travelled with him relates , " The coach halted as usual for dinner , which seemed to be a deeply interesting business to Johnson , who vehemently attacked a dish of stewed carp , using his fingers only in feeding himself . " VOL ...
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... once . But a bookish couple , surrounded by a literary set , were surely not exclusively dependent on him for this description of help , nor laid under any extraordinary obligation by reason of it . Whilst the " Lives of the Poets was ...
... once . But a bookish couple , surrounded by a literary set , were surely not exclusively dependent on him for this description of help , nor laid under any extraordinary obligation by reason of it . Whilst the " Lives of the Poets was ...
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... once asking one of them for wha purpose she supposed her Maker had bestowed on her so much beauty . Her answer was , ' To please the gentlemen , to be sure for what other purpose could it be given me ? " ( Johnsoniana . ) H once carried ...
... once asking one of them for wha purpose she supposed her Maker had bestowed on her so much beauty . Her answer was , ' To please the gentlemen , to be sure for what other purpose could it be given me ? " ( Johnsoniana . ) H once carried ...
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... once and said to him , ' Nobody sends me any verses now , because I am five - and - thirty years old ; and Stella was fed with them till forty - six , I remember . ' My being just recovered from illness and confinement will account for ...
... once and said to him , ' Nobody sends me any verses now , because I am five - and - thirty years old ; and Stella was fed with them till forty - six , I remember . ' My being just recovered from illness and confinement will account for ...
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Page 85 - Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick If they were not his own by finessing and trick: He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back.
Page 317 - Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
Page 92 - Would you eat your dinner that day, Sir?" JOHNSON. " Yes, Sir ; and eat it as if he were eating it with me. Why there's Baretti, who is to be tried for his life to-morrow, friends have risen up for him on every side ; yet if he should be hanged none of them will eat a slice of plum-pudding the less. Sir, that sympathetic feeling goes a very little way in depressing the mind.
Page 17 - ... us maun to our wark again, if our hearts were beating as hard as my hammer.
Page 158 - ... ALMIGHTY GOD, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men ; Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise ; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found ; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Page 77 - England and France affords a man. But when he wished to point them out to his companion: "Never heed such nonsense," would be the reply; "a blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another. Let us, if we DO talk, talk about something; men and women are my subjects of inquiry; let us see how these differ from those we have left behind.
Page 269 - Johnson told me, that he went up thither without mentioning it to his servant, when he wanted to study, secure from interruption ; for he would not allow his servant to say he was not at home when he really was. ' A servant's strict regard for truth, (said he) must be weakened by such a practice.
Page 203 - I am sitting down in no cheerful solitude to write a narrative which would once have affected you with tenderness and sorrow, but which you will perhaps pass over now with the careless glance of frigid indifference. For this diminution of regard however, I know not whether I ought to blame you, who may have reasons which I cannot know, and I do not blame myself, who have for a great part of human life done you what good I could, and have never done you evil.
Page 330 - ... and as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly.
Page 76 - Johnson strongly expressed his love of driving fast in a post-chaise *. " If," said he, " I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman ; but she should be one who could understand me, and would add something to the conversation.