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Match me that among your young folks. Piozzi Letters, ii. 177. On Sept. 2, 1784, he wrote to Mr. Sastres the Italian master: 'I have hope of standing the English winter, and of seeing you, and reading Petrarch at Bolt-court. Ib. p. 407. Life of Johnson, p. 7. It is a most agreeable circumstance attending the publication of this Work, that Mr.
Sastres saw him cast a melancholy look upon their ashes, which he took up and examined to see if a word was still legible. Piozzi Letters, ii. 383.
Sastres, 'may always have something to tell: you live among the various orders of mankind, and may make a letter from the exploits, sometimes of the philosopher, and sometimes of the pickpocket. You see some balloons succeed and some miscarry, and a thousand strange and a thousand foolish things. Piozzi Letters, ii. 412. See ante, p. 349, note.
Sastres, the Italian master; and has dined one day with the beautiful, gay, and fascinating Lady Craven, and the next with good Mrs. Gardiner, the tallow-chandler, on Snow-hill. On my expressing my wonder at his discovering so much of the knowledge peculiar to different professions, he told me, 'I learnt what I know of law, chiefly from Mr. Ballow, a very able man.
He was at once the companion of the brilliant Colonel Forrester of the Guards, who wrote The Polite Philosopher, and of the aukward and uncouth Robert Levet; of Lord Thurlow, and Mr. Sastres, the Italian master; and has dined one day with the beautiful, gay, and fascinating Lady Craven, and the next with good Mrs. Gardiner, the tallow-chandler, on Snow-hill.
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