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My arrival interrupted for a little while the important business of this true representative of Bayes; upon its being resumed, I found that the subject under immediate consideration was a translation, yet in manuscript, of the Carmen Seculare of Horace, which had this year been set to musick, and performed as a publick entertainment in London, for the joint benefit of monsieur Philidor and Signor Baretti.
Cholmondeley, the sayer of odd things, and Seward, much given to yawning, and Baretti, who slew the man in the Haymarket, and Paoli, talking broken English, and Langton, taller by the head than any other member of the club, and Lady Millar, who kept a vase wherein fools were wont to put bad verses, and Jerningham who wrote verses fit to be put into the vase of Lady Millar, and Dr.
On the 18th he wrote: 'Boswell is with us in good humour, and plays his part with his usual vivacity. On this Baretti noted in his copy: 'That is, he makes more noise than anybody in company, talking and laughing loud. On p. 216 in vol. i. he noted: 'Boswell is not quite right-headed in my humble opinion. In the Gent. Mag. for 1777, p. 458, it is described as a 'violent shock.
Post, p. 24, note 2. Of this service Johnson recorded: 'In the morning I had at church some radiations of comfort. Pr. and Med. p. 146. Baretti, in a marginal note on Piozzi Letters, i. 311, says: 'Mr. A gentleman, who from his extraordinary stores of knowledge, has been stiled omniscient.
A certain M. Baretti, who had known me at Aix, and had been the Marquis de Pries croupier, took me to see the Mazzoli, formerly a dancer, and then mistress to the Chevalier Raiberti, a hardheaded but honest man, who was then secretary for foreign affairs.
They will remember how the last debate was discussed in one corner, and the last comedy of Scribe in another; while Wilkie gazed with modest admiration on Sir Joshua's Baretti; while Mackintosh turned over Thomas Aquinas to verify a quotation; while Talleyrand related his conversations with Barras at the Luxembourg, or his ride with Lannes over the field of Austerlitz.
The brewery was sold for £135,000. See post, June 16, 1781. See post, paragraph before June 22, 1784. Baretti, in a MS. note on Piozzi Letters, i. 369, says that 'the two last years of Thrale's life his brewery brought him £30,000 a year neat profit. I could raise fifty of them within the four-and-twenty hours. I have raised many of them in one night.
Thrale calculates that, as we left Streatham on the fifteenth of September, we shall see it again about the fifteenth of November. * Written from a tour in France with the Thrales, Johnson's only visit to the Continent. Miss Thrale. 'I think I had not been on this side of the sea five days before I found a sensible improvement in my health. I ran a race in the rain this day, and beat Baretti.
'atrocem animum Catonis. 'Cato Of spirit unsubdued. FRANCIS. Horace, 2 Odes, i. 24. Yet Baretti, who knew Johnson well, in a MS. note on Piozzi Letters, i.315, says: 'If ever Johnson took any delight in anything it was to converse with some old acquaintance. New people he never loved to be in company with, except ladies, when disposed to caress and flatter him.
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