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I never saw him more sweet, nor better attended to by his audience. In December she wrote: 'Dr. Johnson is very gay, and sociable, and comfortable, and quite as kind to me as ever. A little later she wrote to Mrs. Thrale: 'Does Dr. Johnson continue gay and good-humoured, and "valuing nobody" in a morning? Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, i. 412, 429, 432. Pr. and Med. p. 185.
Sheridan taking the chief part. He it was who, in admiration, repeated the passage to Johnson which provoked the parody. Murphy's Garrick, p. 234. 'Letters to Mrs. Thrale, vol. ii. p. 284. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, ii. 47.
I doubt I shall never see the inside of it. Yet when they met a few days later all seemed friendly. 'When Mrs. Montagu's new house was talked of, Dr. Johnson in a jocose manner, desired to know if he should be invited to see it. "Ay, sure," cried Mrs. Montagu, looking well pleased, "or else I shan't like it." Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, i.118, 126. 'Mrs.
Miss Burney wrote in the first week in December: 'Dr. Johnson was in most excellent good humour and spirits. She describes later on a brilliant party which he attended at Miss Monckton's on the 8th, where the people were 'superbly dressed, and where he was 'environed with listeners. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, ii. 186, and 190. See ante, p. 108, note 4.
Johnson, but seems to have taken an unaccountable dislike to Mrs. Thrale, to whom he never speaks.... He is a shrewd, sensible, keen, and very clever man. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, ii. 172, 174. He, Burke, and Malone were Sir Joshua's executors. Northcote's Reynolds, ii. 293. Boswell should have shown, for he must have known it, that Johnson was Mrs. Thrale's guest at Brighton.
You are a rising wit, and she is at the top; and when I was beginning the world, and was nothing and nobody, the joy of my life was to fire at all the established wits, and then everybody loved to halloo me on." Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, i. 117. 'She has, adds Miss Burney, 'a sensible and penetrating countenance and the air and manner of a woman accustomed to being distinguished and of great parts.
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.
Miss Burney was also of the party. Her account of him is a melancholy one: 'Oct. 28. Dr. Johnson accompanied us to a ball, to the universal amazement of all who saw him there; but he said he had found it so dull being quite alone the preceding evening, that he determined upon going with us; "for," said he, "it cannot be worse than being alone." Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, ii. 161. 'Oct. 29. Mr.
"Blank verse," said an ingenious critick, "seems to be verse only to the eye." Johnson's Works, vii. 141. Mr. Locke. Often mentioned in Mme. D'Arblay's Diary. See vol. in. page 71. It is scarcely a defence. Whatever it was, he thus ends it:-'It is natural to hope, that a comprehensive is likewise an elevated soul, and that whoever is wise is also honest.
MRS. T. "How came she among you, Sir?" DR. J. "Why, I don't rightly remember, but we could spare her very well from us. Poll is a stupid slut. I had some hopes of her at first; but when I talked to her tightly and closely, I could make nothing of her; she was wiggle waggle, and I could never persuade her to be categorical." Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, i. 114.
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