Autobiography, letters and literary remains of mrs. Piozzi, ed., with notes, by A. Hayward, Volume 1 |
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... wrote us a letter expressive of anger , which we were very desirous to pacify , and to obtain his company again if * " He ( Johnson ) spoke with much contempt of the notice taken of Woodhouse , the poetical shoemaker . He said that it ...
... wrote us a letter expressive of anger , which we were very desirous to pacify , and to obtain his company again if * " He ( Johnson ) spoke with much contempt of the notice taken of Woodhouse , the poetical shoemaker . He said that it ...
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... wrote to tell a friend of the charming intellectual party , who had one rule ; ' they wear blue stockings as a distinction . ' " Wraxall , who makes the same comparison , remarks : 28 LIFE AND WRITINGS OF MRS . PIOZZI .
... wrote to tell a friend of the charming intellectual party , who had one rule ; ' they wear blue stockings as a distinction . ' " Wraxall , who makes the same comparison , remarks : 28 LIFE AND WRITINGS OF MRS . PIOZZI .
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... wrote Sir Walter Scott , in 1829 , " I landed in Sky with a party of friends , and had the curiosity to ask what was the first idea on every one's mind at landing . All answered separately that it was this ode . " Thinking Miss Cornelia ...
... wrote Sir Walter Scott , in 1829 , " I landed in Sky with a party of friends , and had the curiosity to ask what was the first idea on every one's mind at landing . All answered separately that it was this ode . " Thinking Miss Cornelia ...
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... wrote . down from his mouth as he made them . " If she was born in 1740-41 , she must have been thirty - six in 1777 ; and there is no perfectly satisfactory settlement of the controversy , which many will think derives its sole im ...
... wrote . down from his mouth as he made them . " If she was born in 1740-41 , she must have been thirty - six in 1777 ; and there is no perfectly satisfactory settlement of the controversy , which many will think derives its sole im ...
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... wrote so like each other , that it was provoking ; ' adding , ' I love to see individuality of character , and abhor sameness , especially in what is feeble and flimsy . ' Then , spreading her hand , she said , ' I believe I owe what ...
... wrote so like each other , that it was provoking ; ' adding , ' I love to see individuality of character , and abhor sameness , especially in what is feeble and flimsy . ' Then , spreading her hand , she said , ' I believe I owe what ...
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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.