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Burney, which were published ten years ago. That unfortunate book contained much that was curious and interesting. Yet it was received with a cry of disgust, and was speedily consigned to oblivion. The truth is, that it deserved its doom. It was written in Madame D'Arblay's later style, the worst style that has ever been known among men.
It is from no unfriendly feeling to Madame D'Arblay's memory that we have expressed ourselves so strongly on the subject of her style. On the contrary, we conceive that we have really rendered a service to her reputation.
Surely this inequality is sufficiently great sixty-two years of copyright for Evelina, only twenty-eight for Persuasion. But to my noble friend this inequality seems not great enough. He proposes to add twenty-five years to Madame D'Arblay's term, and not a single day to Miss Austen's term.
Johnson then recollecting himself, and thinking, as he owned afterwards, that the dispute grew too serious, with a skill all his own, suddenly and unexpectedly turned it to burlesque. D'Arblay's Diary, i. 192. See post, Jan. 20, 1782. See ante, ii.355. Here Johnson condescended to play upon the words Long and short. But little did he know that, owing to Mr.
Adams of Oxford, distinguished for his answer to David Hume's Essay on Miracles. Johnson once said to Miss Burney of her brother Charles: 'I should be glad to see him if he were not your brother; but were he a dog, a cat, a rat, a frog, and belonged to you, I must needs be glad to see him. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, ii. 233. On Nov. 25 she called on him. 'He let me in, though very ill.
In 1792, Miss Burney, after recording that Boswell told some of his Johnsonian stories, continues: 'Mr. Langton told some stories in imitation of Dr. Johnson; but they became him less than Mr. Boswell, and only reminded me of what Dr. Johnson himself once said to me "Every man has some time in his life an ambition to be a wag." Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, v. 307.
'The whole of this unfortunate business' says a certain didactic Dr. Lyster, talking in capitals, towards the end of volume three of Cecilia 'has been the result of PRIDE and PREJUDICE, and looking to the admitted familiarity of Miss Austen with Madame D'Arblay's work, it has been concluded that Miss Austen borrowed from Cecilia, the title of her second novel.
D'Arblay's Diary, i. 305. How I abominate Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander, who routed the poor Otaheitans out of the centre of the ocean, and carried our abominable passions amongst them! not even that poor little speck could escape European restlessness. See ante ii. 148. Boswell tells this story again, ante, ii. 299. Mrs. Oh Lord! how I did hate that horrid Beauclerk! Hayward's Piozzi, i. 348.
After many attempts at definition, and calling in Madame d'Arblay's Meadows, with whom they are perfectly acquainted, they came to "d'ailleurs c'est inconcevable ca." And Madame d'Escar, herself the cleverest person in the room, summed it up: "L'essentiel c'est que notre dandy il veut plaire aux femmes s'il le peut; mais votre dandy Anglais ne le voudrait, meme s'il le pourrait!" Pray tell Mrs.
He told his father himself that he had no turn to economy, but a thief might as well plead that he had no turn to honesty!" Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, i. 75. Locke, in his last words to Collins, said: 'This world affords no solid satisfaction but the consciousness of well-doing, and the hopes of another life. Warburton's Divine Legation, i. xxvi. Thrale's daughters lived to Nov. 5, 1858. Mr.
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