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I wrote him a very serious letter the other day. On March 23 she writes: My going to London would be a dreadful expense, and bring on a thousand inquiries and inconveniences visits to Johnson and from Cator. It is likely that in other letters there were like passages, but these letters Miss Burney 'for cogent reasons destroyed. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, ii. 305, 7, 8.
When they reached the horses, the prisoner was handed over to D'Arblay's lackey, who placed the noose round his neck, and gave him warning as Philip had instructed him. Then they set off, Pierre with the guide again leading the way. Before morning they had ten prisoners in their hands.
"Why, Madam, I believe I should," said he, "if it was not for the newspapers; but I am prevented many frolics that I should like very well, since I am become such a theme for the papers." Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, i. 90. Pope, Essay on Man, ii. 2. Johnson wrote to Mrs. Some great men have promised to obtain him a place, and then a fig for my father and his new wife. Piozzi Letters, i. 324.
"Oh, a fine character, madam. She was habitually a slut and a drunkard, and occasionally a thief and a harlot.... Mrs. Williams," he added, "did not love Bet Flint, but Bet Flint made herself very easy about that." Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, i. 87, 90. 'When first I drew my vital breath, A little minikin I came upon earth; And then I came from a dark abode, Into this gay and gaudy world. BOSWELL.
Sir G. Baker had already been stopped in his carriage by the mob, to give an account of the King; and when he said it was a bad one, they had furiously exclaimed, "The more shame for you." Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, iv. 336. Miss Palmer, Sir Joshua's niece, 'heard Dr. Johnson repeat these verses with the tears falling over his cheek. Taylor's Reynolds, ii. 417. Gibbon remarked that 'Mr.
I could not keep my eyes dry all day; nor can I now in the recollecting it; but let me pass over what to mourn is now so vain. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, ii. 333-339. Croker's Boswell, p. 427, Dr. Johnson calls Thomas Johnson 'cousin, and says that in the last sixteen months he had given him £40. He mentions his death in 1779. Piozzi Letters, ii. 45.
Montagu cared not a fig, as long as she spoke herself, and so she harangued away. Meanwhile Mr. Melmoth, the Pliny Melmoth, as he is called, was of the party, and seemed to think nobody half so great as himself. He seems intolerably self-sufficient appears to look upon himself as the first man in Bath, and has a proud conceit in look and manner, mighty forbidding. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, i. 348.
She was in great agitation of mind, and told me if all went well she would wave a white handkerchief out of the coach-window. Four o'clock came and dinner was ready, and no Mrs. Thrale. Queeny and I went out upon the lawn, where we sauntered in eager expectation, till near six, and then the coach appeared in sight, and a white handkerchief was waved from it. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, ii. 34.
We may, perhaps, afford some harmless amusement to our readers, if we attempt, with the help of these two books, to give them an account of the most important years of Madame D'Arblay's life. She was descended from a family which bore the name of Macburney, and which, though probably of Irish origin, had been long settled in Shropshire, and was possessed of considerable estates in that county.
This put an end to theories, &c., for that day. This was a favourite word with Johnson and Mrs. Thrale. 'Long live Mrs. Miss Burney caught up the word: 'I won't be downed, she wrote. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, i. 252. See ante, iii. 41, 327. Dr.
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