Hester Lynch Piozzi cytaty

Hester Lynch Piozzi , pseud. "Mrs. Thrale" – brytyjska pisarka.

Hester Lynch Piozzi prowadziła salon literacki, w którym bywali m.in. Edmund Burke, Frances Burney i Charles Burney, David Garrick, Oliver Goldsmith i Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Była autorką m.in: Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson , Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson , które miały kilka wydań, a także dziennika z podróży po Francji, Włoszech i Niemczech: Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy and Germany . Wikipedia

✵ 27. Styczeń 1741 – 2. Maj 1821

Hester Lynch Piozzi: 4 cytaty0 Polubień

Hester Lynch Piozzi: Cytaty po angielsku

“A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.”

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Hester Thrale

Letter to Fanny Burney, November 12, 1781; Charlotte Barrett (ed.) Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay (1854) vol. 2, p. 82.

“Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence, and virtue, and honest fondness, one loves people; the other qualities make one proud of loving them too.”

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Hester Thrale

Letter to Fanny Burney; Charlotte Barrett (ed.) Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay (1854) vol. 2, p. 3.

“The tree of deepest root is found
Least willing still to quit the ground;
'Twas therefore said by ancient sages,
That love of life increased with years.
So much, that in our latter stages,
When pains grow sharp and sickness rages,
The greatest love of life appears.”

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Hester Thrale

"Three Warnings", line 1, in Abraham Hayward (ed.) Autobiography, Letters, and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (1861) vol. 2, p. 165.

“Women bear Crosses better than Men do, but bear Surprizes – worse.”

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Hester Thrale

Letter to Sir James Fellowes, November 6, 1817; The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784-1821 (2002) vol. 6, p. 130.