 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1910 - 518 páginas
...succeeded by our marriage. " I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant " BATH./KJW 30, 1784." Ill "MADAM, — If I interpret your letter right, you...married : if it is yet undone, let us once more talk a together. If you have abandoned your children and your religion, God forgive your wickedness ; if... | |
 | Edwin Watts Chubb - 1914 - 462 páginas
...scandalized. " He hated a fiddler, and he hated a foreigner, and Piozzi was both," writes Colonel Grant. " If you have abandoned your children and your religion,...forfeited your fame and your country, may your folly do you no further mischief," cried the indignant Johnson, whose narrow and intense prejudices led him... | |
 | Margaret Coult - 1917 - 458 páginas
...you do with us and for us among our most precious work." 297 : 3. Rough a letter. Johnson wrote, " If I interpret your letter right, you are ignominiously...your country, may your folly do no further mischief ! " her rash act was eighteen years of imprisonment, ended by her execution at Fotheringay, on a charge... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1919 - 688 páginas
...scathing epistle he penned when the blow first fell upon him. It is dated July 2, 1784, and runs thus : ' If I interpret your letter right, you are ignominiously married ; if it is yet undone, let us once talk together. If you have abandoned your children and your religion, God forgive your wickedness ;... | |
 | 1923 - 662 páginas
...marriage ill. He wrote to her as follows: "Madam, If I interpret your letter right, you are ignoininiously married; if it is yet undone, let us once more talk together. If you have adandoned your children and your religion, God forgive your wickedness; if you have forfeited your... | |
 | Robert Lynd - 1928 - 266 páginas
...was going to marry Piozzi, the Italian musician, and that Johnson replied in that passionate letter: "Madam, if I interpret your letter right, you are...your country, may your folly do no further mischief." It is always well when reading this letter to remember that it is the letter of an old and dying man,... | |
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MADAM, — If I interpret your letter right, you are ignominiously married : if it is yet undone, let us once more talk together. If you have abandoned your children and your religion, God forgive your wickedness; if you have forfeited your fame and your... 
