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"ABBOTSFORD, 16 January 1831." Sir W. alludes to Mrs. Piozzi's Tale of The Three Warnings. Macbeth, Act I. Sc. 3. Eccles. xii. 3. Crabbe's Borough, Letter xiii. See Pirate. The deer-hound Bran which was presented by Macpherson of Cluny; Nimrod was Glengarry's gift. See letter to Miss Edgeworth, printed in Life, vol. ix. p. 345. I Henry IV., Act II. Sc. 3. No. 1 Castle Street.
Brighton, autumn; a short visit. Piozzi's Anec. p. 126, and Piozzi Letters, i. 1. Streatham, summer and autumn; more than three months. Ante, ii. 25, and Pr. and Med. p. 71. Oxford, autumn; a month. Ante, ii. 25. Lichfield, summer and autumn; 'near six months. Ante, ii. 30, and Piozzi Letters, i. 4, 5. Oxford, spring; several weeks. Piozzi Letters, i. 6-15.
"So Indian murd'rers hope to gain The powers and virtues of the slain, Of wretches they destroy." Vide Memoires du Cardinal de Retz. Vide Sir W. Hamilton's account of an eruption of Mount Vesuvius. This fact, we believe, is mentioned in a letter of Mrs. Cappe's on parish schools. Vide Mrs. Piozzi's English Synonymy. John Lydgate.
Piozzi, nearly twenty years later, places among 'the contradictions one meets with every moment' at Paris, 'A Countess in a morning, her hair dressed, with diamonds too perhaps, and a dirty black handkerchief about her neck. Piozzi's Journey, i. 17. See ante, ii. 403, and post, under Aug. 29, 1783. His lordship was, to the last, in the habit of telling this story rather too often.
How the quotation was applied is a matter only for conjecture. 'Was there, asked Johnson, 'ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and The Pilgrim's Progress? Piozzi's Anec. p. 281. See ante, i. 406. See ante, March 25, 1776. In the Gent.
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