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We gave her half a crown, and she offered part of it again. Piozzi Letters, i. 133. Of this part of the journey Johnson wrote: 'We had very little entertainment as we travelled either for the eye or ear. There are, I fancy, no singing birds in the Highlands. Piozzi Letters, i. 135. It is odd that he should have looked for singing birds on the first of September. Act iii. sc. 4.
'I believe that for all the castles which I have seen beyond the Tweed, the ruins yet remaining of some one of those which the English built in Wales would supply Materials. Johnson's Works, ix. 152. See ante, p. 40, note 4. Johnson described her as 'a lady who for many years gave the laws of elegance to Scotland. Piozzi Letters, i. 200.
But the last forty years of her life were not as charming as the first. Her weaknesses gained mastery over her, her vanity led her into follies, and she who had once been the favorite correspondent of Dr. Johnson now appears as the correspondent of such inferior persona that no association is connected with their names. Mrs. Thrale and Mrs. Piozzi are two different persons.
There was little gayety in the life at Brynbella, or at Bath, and the society that Mrs. Piozzi now saw was made up chiefly of new and for the most part uninteresting acquaintances. The old Streatham set, with a few exceptions, were dead, and of the few that remained none retained their former relations with its mistress.
D'Arblay's Diary, ii. 198. 'Mrs. Porter, the tragedian, was so much the favourite of her time, that she was welcomed on the stage when she trod it by the help of a stick. Piozzi Letters, ii. 319. He said: 'Mrs. Clive was the best player I ever saw. Boswell's Hebrides, post, v. 126. See ante, p. 7. She was for many years the neighbour and friend of Horace Walpole. She acted the heroine in Irene.
Thrale, afterward Mrs. Piozzi, who at the age of eighty was full enough of life to be making love ardently and persistently to Conway, the handsome young actor. I can readily believe that Number Five will outlive the Tutor, even if he is fortunate enough rather in winning his way into the fortress through gates that open to him of their own accord.
His delight in your company is like Boniface's exultation when the squire speaks Latin; for understand you he certainly cannot. Piozzi Letters, i. 328. It was not the squire, but the priest, Foigard, who by his Latin did Boniface good. The Beaux Strategem, act iii. sc. 2. Pr. and Med. p. 151. St. James, i. 17. See ante, ii. 175.
Miss Burney is frighted, but she says better times will come; she made me date my letter so, and persists in hoping that ten years hence we shall all three read it over together and be merry. But, perhaps, you will ask, "who is consternated,"? as you did about the French invasion. Piozzi Letters, ii. 146. 'Lord Mansfield's house, wrote Dr.
'Boswell was very angry that the Aberdeen professors would not talk. Piozzi Letters, i. 118. Dr. Robertson and Dr. On another occasion when Johnson came in, the company 'were all as quiet as a school upon the entrance of the headmaster. Ante, iii. 332. Dr. Beattie says that this printer was Strahan.
The brewery was sold for £135,000. See post, June 16, 1781. See post, paragraph before June 22, 1784. Baretti, in a MS. note on Piozzi Letters, i. 369, says that 'the two last years of Thrale's life his brewery brought him £30,000 a year neat profit. I could raise fifty of them within the four-and-twenty hours. I have raised many of them in one night.
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