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A week after Harry's death he wrote: 'I loved him as I never expect to love any other little boy; but I could not love him as a parent. Ib. p. 310. Johnson had known this anxiety. He wrote to Mrs. Thrale from Ashbourne on July 7, 1775: 'I cannot think why I hear nothing from you. I hope and fear about my dear friends at Streatham.

Thrale of Boswell's "Life of Johnson." Mr. Thrale was a brewer, the founder of the great firm now known as Barclay and Perkins. She was many years younger than he; and, after his death, she married Signor Piozzi, a professional musician of eminence.

Thrale on March 20: 'Write to me no more about dying with a grace; when you feel what I have felt in approaching eternity in fear of soon hearing the sentence of which there is no revocation, you will know the folly. Piozzi Letters, ii. 354. Of him it might have been said in Cowper's words: 'Scripture is still a trumpet to his fears. The Task: The Winter Morning Walk, 1. 611. See ante, iii. 294.

Thrale, by assuring them of my hearty joy that the Master , as you call him, is alive. I hope I shall often taste his Champagne soberly. 'I have not heard from Langton for a long time. I suppose he is as usual, "Studious the busy moments to deceive ." 'I remain, my dear Sir, 'Your most affectionate, and faithful humble servant, On the 23rd of June, I again wrote to Dr.

Somewhat more than three years after her first husband's death, Mrs. Thrale, in spite of the opposition of her friends, the repugnance of her daughters, and the sneers of society, married Piozzi. He was a poor Italian gentleman, whose only fortune was in his voice and his musical talent. He had been for some time an admired public singer in London and Paris.

Thrale remarks upon his jumping over a stool to show that he was not tired by his hunting, that his performances in this kind were so strange and uncouth that a fear for the safety of his bones quenched the spectator's tendency to laugh. In such a strange case was imprisoned one of the most vigorous intellects of the time.

Old Maisie fought shy of inquiries, which might have produced counter-inquiry she could scarcely have met by silence; and Mrs. Thrale shrank, with a true instinctive delicacy, from prying into a record which had the word poverty so legible on its title-page, and signs of a former well-being so visible on its subject. Besides, how about Sapps Court and Dave's uncle, the prizefighter?

Thrale lost a younger daughter, and Johnson had a paralytic stroke in June. Death was sending preliminary warnings. A correspondence was kept up, which implies that the old terms were not ostensibly broken. Mrs.

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.

I take the liberty of proposing to your lordship, that the historical account should be written under your direction by any friend you may be willing to employ, and I will only take upon myself to examine the poetry. Croker's Boswell, p.650. Thrale wrote. Let not my readers smile to think of Johnson's being a candidate for female favour; Mr.