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That quiet girl, full of household work, is the wonderful scholar, then, that put you to rout with her questions when you first began to come here. To be sure, "Cousin Phillis!" What's here: a paper with the hard, obsolete words written out. I wonder what sort of a dictionary she has got. Baretti won't tell her all these words. Stay! I have got a pencil here.
"Very likely an enraged Baretti swooped down on them and read them the law in broken and indignant English," guessed Ronny, with a glance toward the cashier's desk, where the stolid little proprietor sat counting the day's receipts. "Did he?" emphasized Vera. "He crossed the floor as though he had wings attached to his shoes. He stopped directly in front of Leslie Cairns.
Entering the quaint, stately restaurant, the Lookouts stopped to pay courteous respects to Guiseppe Baretti, the proud proprietor, a small, somber-eyed Italian. Their frequent patronage of Baretti's during their freshman year had made them very welcome guests. Signor Baretti's solemn face became wreathed with smiles as he greeted them. "It is certainly good to be here again!" exclaimed Jerry.
Baretti, in a MS. note on Piozzi Letters, i. 309, says: 'The most unaccountable part of Johnson's character was his total ignorance of the character of his most familiar acquaintance. Lord Pembroke said once to me at Wilton, with a happy pleasantry, and some truth, that 'Dr.
Baretti is a fine fellow, and speaks French, I think, quite as well as English. 'Make my compliments to Mrs. Williams; and give my love to Francis; and tell my friends that I am not lost. I am, dear Sir, your affectionate humble, &c.
You can't therefore expect an answer." Prior's Malone, p. 399. Sir Joshua Reynolds, on hearing this from Malone, said: 'This turn which Baretti now gives to the matter was an after-thought; for he once said to me myself: "There are various opinions about the writer of that prayer; some give it to St. Augustine, some to St. Chrysostom, &c. What is your opinion? " Ib. p. 394. Mrs.
I censured some ludicrous fantastick dialogues between two coach-horses and other such stuff, which Baretti had lately published. He joined with me, and said, 'Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last. I expressed a desire to be acquainted with a lady who had been much talked of, and universally celebrated for extraordinary address and insinuation.
Couldest thou have lived! Pr. and Med. pp. 169, 170. Mr. Langton. See ante, iii. 48. Malone was told by Baretti that 'Dr. James picked up on a stall a book of Greek hymns. He brought it to Johnson, who ran his eyes over the pages and returned it. A year or two afterwards he dined at Sir Joshua Reynolds's with Dr. Musgrave, the editor of Euripides.
Thrale had his first stroke in 1779, Johnson wrote: 'I am the more alarmed by this violent seizure, as I can impute it to no wrong practices, or intemperance of any kind.... What can he reform? or what can he add to his regularity and temperance? He can only sleep less. Piozzi Letters, ii. 49, 51. Baretti, in a MS. note on p. 51, says: 'Dr.
Baretti in his Italy, i. 236, says: 'It is the general custom for our authors to make a present of their works to booksellers, who in return scarcely give a few copies when printed. The Venetian bookseller to whom Metastasio gave his cleared, Baretti says, more than £10,000.
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