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In the first place, Johnson became acquainted with the Thrales, not in 1765, but in 1764, and during the last weeks of 1764 dined with them every Thursday, as is written in Mrs. Piozzi's anecdotes. In the second place, Goldsmith published the Vicar of Wakefield, not in 1761, but in 1766. Mrs.
Piozzi's beautifully written manuscript, containing a narrative and anecdotes of portions of her life. Hayward's recent book is composed. Duncan C. Pell, of Newport, R.I. It is to his liberality that we are indebted for the privilege of laying before the readers of the Atlantic the following portions of Mrs. On the first fly-leaf is the following inscription:
He loved indeed the very act of travelling.... He was in some respects an admirable companion on the road, as he piqued himself upon feeling no inconvenience, and on despising no accommodations. Piozzi's Anec. p. 168. Johnson, this same year, speaking of a friend who had gone to the East Indies, said: 'I had some intention of accompanying him.
Piozzi's eldest daughter, died. She was ninety-five years old. Her long life connected our generation with that of Johnson and Burke. She was the last survivor of the Streatham "set," for, as "Queeney," she had held a not unimportant place in it. She was at Johnson's death-bed.
Johnson, who on his own part required less attendance, sick or well, than ever I saw any human creature. Conversation was all he required to make him happy. Piozzi's Anec. p.275. Miss Burney's account of the life at Streatham is generally very cheerful. I suspect that the irksome confinement described by Mrs. Piozzi was not felt by her till she became attached to Mr. Piozzi.
Young's Night Thoughts, Night iv. See Boswell's Hebrides, Aug. 20, 1773. According to Mrs. Piozzi 'he liked the expression so well that he often repeated it. Piozzi's Anec. p. 208. He wrote to her: 'Have you not observed in all our conversations that my genius is always in extremes; that I am very noisy or very silent; very gloomy or very merry; very sour or very kind? Piozzi Letters, ii. 166.
"He may paint himself as deaf, if he chooses," replied Johnson, "but I will not be blinking Sam." Piozzi's Anec. p. 248. 'You look in vain for the helmet on the tower, the ancient signal of hospitality to the traveller, or for the grey-headed porter to conduct him to the hall of entertainment.
Johnson protest that he never had quite as much as he wished of wall-fruit, except once in his life. Piozzi's Anec. p. 103. At the Essex Head, Essex-street. Juvenal, Satires, x. 8: 'Fate wings with every wish the afflictive dart. Vanity of Human Wishes, l. 15. Mr. Allen, the printer. BOSWELL. See ante, iii. 141, 269. His letter to Dr.
'Ah, Madam! said the Marquis, when he first saluted me, 'we used to blame dear Piozzi; now we envy him!" Of Mrs. Piozzi's journey on the Continent we shall speak in another article. After a residence abroad of two years and a half, she and her husband returned to London in March, 1787. Mrs.
He could not disoblige his neighbours by sending them no venison. Piozzi Letters, ii. 326. This remark has reference to family conversation. Robert was the eldest son of Sir L.S. Cotton, and lived at Lleweney. Paradise Lost, book xi. v. 642. See Mrs. Piozzi's Synonymy, i. 323, for an anecdote of this walk. Lleweney Hall was the residence of Robert Cotton, Esq., Mrs. Thrale's cousin german.
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