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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.
Why is it that whatever you see, and whoever you see, you are to be so indiscriminately lavish of praise?" "Why I'll tell you, Sir," said I, "when I am with you, and Mr. D'Arblay's Diary, i. 132. On June 11, 1775, he wrote to Mrs. Thrale from Lichfield: 'Everybody remembers you all: you left a good impression behind you. I hope you will do the same at . Do not make them speeches.
Johnson about our dear deceased master, whom, indeed, he regrets incessantly. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, ii. 63. On his next birthday, he wrote: 'My first knowledge of Thrale was in 1765. I enjoyed his favour for almost a fourth part of my life. Pr. and Med. p.191. One or two passages in Mrs. Thrale's Letters shew her husband's affection for Johnson. On May 3, 1776, she writes: 'Mr.
Johnson by his solemn manner of listening, by the earnest reverence with which he eyed him, and by a theatric start of admiration every time he spoke, joined to the Doctor's utter insensibility to all these tokens, made me find infinite difficulty in keeping my countenance. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, ii. 85. The other gentleman was perhaps Dr. Wharton. Ante, ii. 41, note 1. Probably Dr. Beattie.
The truth is, that Madame D'Arblay's style underwent a gradual and most pernicious change, a change which, in degree at least, we believe to be unexampled in literary history, and of which it may be useful to trace the progress. When she wrote her letters to Mr.
D'Arblay's Diary, ii. 293, 5. 'I snatch, he wrote a few weeks later, 'every lucid interval, and animate myself with such amusements as the time offers. Piozzi Letters, ii. 349. He had written to her on Nov. 10. See Croker's Boswell, p. 742. In 1756-7 they were all taken down. Dodsley's London and its Environs, ed. 1761, iv. 136-143. In Lowndes's Bibl.
Vesey's fear of ceremony is really troublesome; for her eagerness to break a circle is such that she insists upon everybody's sitting with their backs one to another; that is, the chairs are drawn into little parties of three together, in a confused manner all over the room." Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, i. 184.
De la Noue at once took them across to D'Arblay's tent. "My cousin and his kinsman will gladly ride with you, and place themselves under your orders, D'Arblay. I can warmly commend them to you.
He abated, therefore, considerably tile stern gloom of his haughtiness, and soothed his proud mind by the courtesy of condescension." We will stake our reputation for critical sagacity on this, that no such paragraph as that which we have last quoted, can be found in any of Madame D'Arblay's works except Cecilia. Compare with it the following sample of her later style.
Miss Burney wrote to Mrs. Thrale in 1780: 'I met at Sir Joshua's young Burke, who is made much ado about, but I saw not enough of him to know why. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, i. 416. Mrs. Thrale replied: 'I congratulate myself on being quite of your opinion concerning Burke the minor, whom I once met and could make nothing of. Ib. p. 418. He had been Dr.
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