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He is of opinion that if it does not fail, it will succeed, but if it does not succeed he conceives it must fail. Piozzi Letters, ii. 41. Baretti, in a marginal note on his copy, says that B is Dr. Burney. He adds: 'The musical scheme was the Carmen Seculare. That brought me £150 in three nights, and three times as much to Philidor.
He seemed to me to hesitate as to the intended Italian tour, on which, I flattered myself, he and Mrs. Thrale and Dr. Johnson were soon to set out; and, therefore, I pressed it as much as I could. I mentioned, that Mr. Beauclerk had said, that Baretti, whom they were to carry with them, would keep them so long in the little towns of his own district, that they would not have time to see Rome.
Johnson knew that Thrale would eat like four, let physicians preach.... May be he did not know it, so little did he mind what people were doing. Though he sat by Thrale at dinner, he never noticed whether he eat much or little. A strange man! Yet in a note on p. 49, Baretti had said that Thrale's seizure was caused by 'the mere grief he could not overcome of his only son's loss.
Garrick, Mr. Baretti, Sir Robert Chambers, and Sir Joshua Reynolds himself, all painted in the highest style of this great master, who much delighted in this his Streatham Gallery. There was place left but for one more frame when the acquaintance with Dr. Burney began at Streatham."
Porson with admirable humour satirised Hawkins for his attack on Barber. Gent. Mag. 1787, p. 752, and Porson Tracts, p. 358. Baretti in his Tolondron, p. 149, says that 'Barber from his earliest youth served Johnson with the greatest affection and disinterestedness. Vol. ii. p. 30. I shall add one instance only to those which I have thought it incumbent on me to point out. Talking of Mr.
Baretti says, he is the first man that ever received copy-money in Italy. I said that I would endeavour to do what Dr. Johnson suggested and I thought that I might write so as to venture to publish my History of the Civil War in Great-Britain in 1745 and 1746, without being obliged to go to a foreign press. When we arrived at Derby, Dr. Butter accompanied us to see the manufactory of china there.
"Why did the Sans turn from Baretti's to the Colonial?" Lucy asked tersely. Her analytic mind had not for an instant lost sight of Vera's earlier remark concerning the proprietor. "What happened?" "Oh, it took a large number of straws to break the camel's back. When it broke " "Bing!" obligingly supplied Jerry. "I can picture the wrath of an outraged Baretti."
There were nearly all the little children in her classes, led by the hand by their mothers, who carried tapers; and there were a very great many from the other classes, and fifty scholars from the Baretti School, some with wreaths in their hands, some with bunches of roses.
The one I generally use is that of Molini Poesie Varie di Lodovico Ariosto, con Annotazioni. I quote Baretti, because he speaks with a corresponding enthusiasm. He calls the incident "a very rare proof of the irresistible powers of poetry, and a noble comment on the fables of Orpheus and Amphion," &c.
Thrale on May 3 wrote: 'Baretti said you would be very angry, because this dreadful event made us put off our Italian journey, but I knew you better. Who knows even now that 'tis deferred for ever? Mr. Thrale says he shall not die in peace without seeing Rome, and I am sure he will go no-where that he can help without you. Ib. p. 317. See ante, i. 346.
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