Love letters of mrs. Piozzi, written when she was eighty, to W.A. Conway |
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3d Feb ADLARD appear Apricots BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE Bath beauteous clay beautiful begs Bessy Birmingham Brereton character China Rose copies Courier Daughters Dear dearest Dorset Fellowes's Eckersall's eldest Granddaughter fancy favor Florence Flower produced following letters Friend Friendship Gerrard Street giving God Thanks God's favour H. L. P. feels H. L. PIOZZI happy meeting Health heart Heaven husband Jaffier January John Salusbury Johnson Jury of Matrons keep kindly call King's Mead Terrace lady Lee says London LOVE LETTERS marriage with Piozzi Messidor Miss O'Neil's Miss Williams Morning Night o'clock Octogenary pen old Age particular Subject person Piozziana Poor H. L. P. Prairial pray produced in colder received Romeo Scent or Flavour seems shattered nerves Sibyl Soho Soul Southwark Spirits Stratton Streatham Thermidor Thrale thro twenty-six years old Virgil WESTON SUPER MARE widow WILLIAM AUGUSTUS CONWAY wish word writing Written at three Youth and Strength
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第 3 頁 - 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.
第 12 頁 - Blest as the immortal gods is he, The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee all the while Softly speak and sweetly smile.
第 29 頁 - Birmingham, you would send me ; and now he is only three streets off." ' (Artful maid ! Here also following the immemorial precedents ; aged spinsters and widows, from Mrs. Wadman downwards, always accepting such comfort from their familiars.) ' Go I WILL,
第 30 頁 - Whilst I am advising my beloved patient, however, to turn the torrent of his fancy toward the past occurrences of human life, the dear pathetic letter now in my bosom forced me on the same method this forenoon, when my heart really sunk at the thought of such coarse conduct.
第 18 頁 - ... whenever I look at it my spirits revive, and hope (true pulse of Life) ceases to intermit, for a while at least, and bids me be assured we soon shall meet again. I really was very ill three or four days ; but the jury of matrons who sat on my complaint acquitted the apricots which I accused, and said they (all but two) proved an alibi. Some of the servants, who were ill too, found out...
第 36 頁 - Besides that our time here is but short ; a mere preface to the great book of eternity : and 'tis scarce worthy of a reasonable being not to keep the end of human existence so far in view that we may tend to it — either directly or obliquely in every step. This is preaching — but remember how the sermon is written at three, four, and five o'clock by an octogenary pen — a heart (as Mrs. Lee says) twenty-six years old : and as HLP feels it to be, — ALL YOUR OWN.
第 35 頁 - ... petite traitresse hangs all the happiness of my once highspirited and high-blooded friend. Let it not be so. Exalt thy love, dejected heart, and rise superior to such narrow minds. Do not, however, fancy she will ever be punished in the way you mention : no, no ; she'll wither on the thorny stem, dropping the faded and...
第 27 頁 - Yorick became paternal and highly clerical in his exhortations, but Mrs. Piozzi verges on the profane. As Christmas draws on she touches a congenial string : ' Accept, dearest Mr. Conway, of a real Christmas pie : it will be such a nice thing for you when, coming late home, there is no time for a better supper ; but Bessy begs you will not try to eat the crust ; it will keep for weeks this weather. The fleece should be a golden one, had I the magic powers of Medea ; but I do think I was baby enough...
第 8 頁 - In 1785," (says Mr. Gifford, in the preface to his Baviad and Maeviad,) "a few English of both sexes, whom chance had jumbled together at Florence, took a fancy to while away their time in scribbling high-flown panegyrics on themselves ; and complimentary canzonnettas on two or three Italians, who understood too little of the language in which they were written, to be disgusted with them.
第 22 頁 - Good Night ! and God bless my dearest and most valued Friend ! for whose perfect Recovery and long continued Happiness I will pray till the Post comes in : — Yes ; and till Life goes out from poor HLP 1 would keep up my Spirits as you wish me and your Spirits too.