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The Thrales fled from Bath where a riot had broken out, and travelled about the country in alarm for Mr. Thrale's 'personal safety, as it had been maliciously asserted in a Bath and Bristol paper that he was a Papist. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, i. 399. On May 30 he wrote to Mrs.
'Murphy adds that he himself took care that Mrs. Garrick was informed of what Johnson had said, but that no answer was ever received. Miss Burney wrote in May: 'Dr. Johnson was charming, both in spirits and humour. I thanked him for the last batch of his poets, and we talked them over almost all the way. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, ii. 23, 44.
I know not how to risk a prayer with those who may silence me by a command." Take now a specimen of Madame D'Arblay's later style. This is the way in which she tells us that her father, on his journey back from the Continent, caught the rheumatism.
I always hissed away the charge, supposing him a man of honour; but I shall now defend him with less confidence. Baretti, in a marginal note, says that C L is 'Charlotte Lennox. Perhaps stands for Cumberland. Miss Burney said that 'Mr. Cumberland is notorious for hating and envying and spiting all authors in the dramatic line. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, i. 272. See ante, i. 255.
Gardiner. Croker's Boswell, p.739. See ante, iii.157, note 3. Dr. Burney had just lost Mr. Crisp. Dr. Burney's Memoirs, ii.323, 352. For Mr. Crisp, see Macaulay's Review of Mme. D'Arblay's Diary. Essays, ed. 1874, iv.104. He wrote of her to Mrs. Montagu: 'Her curiosity was universal, her knowledge was very extensive, and she sustained forty years of misery with steady fortitude.
We will, therefore, bring our narrative to a speedy close, by rapidly recounting the most important events which we know to have befallen Madame D'Arblay during the latter part of her life. M. D'Arblay's fortune had perished in the general wreck of the French Revolution; and in a foreign country his talents, whatever they may have been, could scarcely make him rich.
"For," says Mr. Johnson, "though I do not quite agree with the proverb, that Nullum numen adest si sit prudentia, yet we may very well say, that Nullum numen adest, ni sit prudentia." It has since appeared. Miss Burney mentions meeting Dr. Harington at Bath in 1780. D'Arblay's Diary, i. 341. 'For though they are but trifles, thou Some value didst to them allow. Martin's Catullus, p. 1.
But now in England more modern patterns, and especially Anstey's New Bath Guide, started the fashion of actual correspondence in doggerel verse with no thought of print a practice in which persons as different as Madame d'Arblay's good-natured but rather foolish father, and a poet and historian like Southey indulged; and which did not become obsolete till Victorian times, if then.
'Sept. 1778. We began talking of Irene, and Mrs. Thrale made Dr. Johnson read some passages which I had been remarking as uncommonly applicable to the present time. He read several speeches, and told us he had not ever read so much of it before since it was first printed. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, i. 96.
She diffuses more knowledge in her conversation than any woman I know, or, indeed, almost any man." MRS. THRALE. "I declare I know no man equal to her, take away yourself and Burke, for that art." Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, i. 118. It is curious that Mrs. Thrale and Boswell should both thus instance Burke.
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