 | 1861 - 898 σελίδες
...forgive your wickedness^ if you have forfeited your fame and your country, may your folly do no further mischief. If the last act is yet to do, I who have...will come down if you permit it. No, 4. July 4, 1784. Sin, — I have this morning received from you so rough a letter in reply to one which was both tenderly... | |
 | 1861 - 522 σελίδες
...forgive your wickedness ; if you have forfeited your fame and your country, may your folly do no further mischief. If the last act is yet to do, I who have...July 2, 1784. I will come down if you permit it." Mr. Hayward gives this letter as now first printed ; but it must have been seen, at the time, by Dr.... | |
 | 1861 - 546 σελίδες
...forgive your wickedness; if you have forfeited your fame and your country, may your folly do no further mischief. If the last act is yet to do, I, who have...your fate is irrevocable, I may once more see you." Mrs. Thrale (for she was still Mrs. Thrale) replied temperately and sensibly. She would not allow that... | |
 | 1861 - 522 σελίδες
...forgive your wickedness ; if you have forfeited your fame and your country, may your folly do no urther mischief. If the last act is yet to do, I who have...— I who long thought you the first of womankind, intreat that, before your fate is irrevocable, I may once more see you. I was, I once was, Madam, most... | |
 | 1861 - 624 σελίδες
...sapphics addressed to her from Skye, — the passionate words of his last recorded letter to her : ' I who have * loved you, esteemed you, reverenced you,...I ' who long thought you the first of womankind,' — these breathe the language of a very different feeling from an ordinary old gentleman's penchant... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 406 σελίδες
...refuse this favour to a man who hath so many years loved and honoured you." your folly do no further mischief. If the last act is yet to do, I who have loved you, esteemed you, reverenced you, and sei'ved you *, I who long thought you the first of womankind, entreat that, before your fate is irrevocable,... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 572 σελίδες
...forgive your wickedness ; if you have forfeited your fame and your country, may your folly do no further mischief. If the last act is yet to do, I who have loved you, esteemed you, reverenced you, and terved you,* I who long thought you the first of womankind, entreat that, before your fate is irrevocable,... | |
 | 1861 - 820 σελίδες
...forgive your wickedness; if you have forfeited your fame and your country, may your folly do no further mischief. If the last act is yet to do, I who have loved yon, esteemed you, reverenced you, and teretd you,,'" I who long thought you the first of womankind,... | |
 | James Philemon Holcombe - 1866 - 540 σελίδες
...forgive your wickedness ; if yon have forfeited your fame and your country, may yoor folly do no further mischief. If the last act is yet to do, I who have...once was, madam, most truly yours, SAM JOHNSON. July 2d, 1784. I will come down if you permit it, 11 Mr 8. Piozzi to Dr. Johnson — In Eeply. XVIII.—... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 192 σελίδες
...forgive your wickedness ; if you have forfeited your fame and your country, may your folly do no further mischief. If the last act is yet to do, I who have...loved you, esteemed you, reverenced you, and served rou.^ I who long thought you the tirst of womankind, entreat that, before your fate is irrevocable,... | |
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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 country,... 
