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True, he was more fastidious in his choice of novels of real life than in his romantic reading. "The whole Jemmy and Jessamy tribe I abhorred," he said; "and it required the art of Burney or the feeling of Mackenzie to fix my attention upon a domestic tale." But when the domestic tale was good and true, no man appreciated it more than he.
We must now, for some pages, illustrate the course of the novel by minor examples: and we may begin with a brief notice of two writers, one of whom might have been taken before Miss Burney and the other just after her chronologically: but who, in the order of thought and method, will come better here. Both were natives of Scotland and both illustrate different ways of the novel.
Some correspondence took place between this person and Miss Burney, who took the name of Grafton, and desired that the letters addressed to her might be left at the Orange Coffee-house. But, before the bargain was finally struck, Fanny thought it her duty to obtain her father's consent.
These are in the Burney Collection, and are inscribed "These papers are by the celebrated Henry Fielding Esqre." See the Gentleman's Magazine. Dec. 1747. A Free Comment on the Late Mr. W-G-N's Apology ... By a Lady ... 1748. The Patriot Analized. 1748. True Patriot No. 14. True Patriot. No. 29. May 20, 1746. R. Cobbett. Memorials of Twickenham, 1872.
'The company in general were dressed with more brilliancy than at any rout I ever was at, as most of them were going to the Duchess of Cumberland's. Miss Burney herself was 'surrounded by strangers, all dressed superbly, and all looking saucily.... Dr. Johnson was standing near the fire, and environed with listeners. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, ii. 179, 186, 190.
Miss Burney thus describes her: 'She is between thirty and forty, very short, very fat, but handsome; splendidly and fantastically dressed, rouged not unbecomingly yet evidently, and palpably desirous of gaining notice and admiration.
Boardman and little George were hurried away through a back door to a retired building in the rear. On the kind invitation of Mrs. Burney, the wife of the English resident, who happened to be absent, they sought shelter from the storm of bullets in the Government-house. Mr.
Johnson knew it, but would not tell it. See post, iv. 84, note 4. Miss Burney. I have taken the liberty to leave out a few lines. BOSWELL. Lines about diet and physic. See ante, ii. 61, note 4. The author of Fables for the Female Sex, and of the tragedy of The Gamester, and editor of The World. Sale and Moore will suffice for one age at least. But they are dead and their sorrows are over. Mr.
Thrale, then at the height of prosperity and popularity, with gay spirits, quick wit, showy though superficial acquirements, pleasing though not refined manners, a singularly amiable temper, and a loving heart, felt towards Fanny as towards a younger sister. With the Thrales Johnson was domesticated. He was an old friend of Dr. Burney; but he had probably taken little notice of Dr.
She described well the awe she felt, and the power of the excitement given to her by the sight of Burke, Fox, Sheridan, and Sir Joshua Reynolds in the pit. She invited us to a private reading-party at her own house: present only her daughter, a very pretty young lady, a Mrs. Wilkinson, Mr. Burney, Dr. Holland, Lydia White, Mr. Harness and ourselves.
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