Love Letters of Mrs. Piozzi: Written when She was Eighty, to William Augustus Conway ... |
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... perhaps the sprightly widow might not relish the Doctor's conversation so much as she did when a wife ; and perhaps the great moralist , in giving her advice , not only as her friend , but as one of the executors of her late husband's ...
... perhaps the sprightly widow might not relish the Doctor's conversation so much as she did when a wife ; and perhaps the great moralist , in giving her advice , not only as her friend , but as one of the executors of her late husband's ...
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... Perhaps no other woman ever left behind her , in her own writing , such indisputable evidence of a green old age , as is afforded by the following letters . She seems to have retained till her eightieth year her bodily as well as her ...
... Perhaps no other woman ever left behind her , in her own writing , such indisputable evidence of a green old age , as is afforded by the following letters . She seems to have retained till her eightieth year her bodily as well as her ...
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... perhaps have seen advertised as Letters from Amoroso . - The Lady escapes Censure , but her Secession provokes strange Enquiries . You , however , and I can do nothing better than keep resolute Silence , remembering Scrub's Admonition ...
... perhaps have seen advertised as Letters from Amoroso . - The Lady escapes Censure , but her Secession provokes strange Enquiries . You , however , and I can do nothing better than keep resolute Silence , remembering Scrub's Admonition ...
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... perhaps - - - ― - --- ――――― * In the reformed Calendar of the French Republic , Floréal , Prairial , Messidor , and Thermidor were the names of four newly - apportioned months , between the 19th of April and the 18th of August ...
... perhaps - - - ― - --- ――――― * In the reformed Calendar of the French Republic , Floréal , Prairial , Messidor , and Thermidor were the names of four newly - apportioned months , between the 19th of April and the 18th of August ...
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... perhaps the Postman may say so too . know the people nor I either ; but they are Grand Folks , Friends to Sir James Fellowes : I have written to the Clerk again to day , and suppose you will get your little paltry present of six Bottles ...
... perhaps the Postman may say so too . know the people nor I either ; but they are Grand Folks , Friends to Sir James Fellowes : I have written to the Clerk again to day , and suppose you will get your little paltry present of six Bottles ...
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added ancient ANTIQUARIAN Antiquities appeared Architect attention Ballads Bath beautiful Carlisle Century character Chronicle cloth Collection comes complete containing Conway copies County curious Dear DIALECT early edited Edward England English engraved Family favor feel folio forms four France Friend Glossary HALLIWELL happy Heart History House illustrative interesting James JOHN Johnson keep Kent King lady language LARGE late letters Library London manners meet mind Miss Morning Night Notes observation once original particular perhaps person pieces Piozzi plates Play Poems poetry Poets post 8vo present principal printed PROVINCIAL published received remarks respecting Review rich royal says seems SMITH SOCIETY SOHO Songs Spirits Street thick things Thrale tion translated true valuable various vols volume WILLIAM AUGUSTUS CONWAY wish writing written young
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Page 3 - written at three, four, and five o'clock (in the morning) by an octogenary pen ; a heart (as Mrs. Lee says) twenty-six years old, and as HLP feels it to be, all your own.