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Passages in his letters shew that he had some enjoyment of country life. Thus he writes: 'I hope to see standing corn in some part of the earth this summer, but I shall hardly smell hay or suck clover flowers. Piozzi Letters, ii. 140. 'What I shall do next I know not; all my schemes of rural pleasure have been some way or other disappointed. Ib. p. 372.
So much for the authenticity of the paragraph, as far as it relates to his own sentiments. The words containing the assertion, to which Mrs Piozzi objects, are printed from my manuscript Journal, and were taken down at the time.
These words must have been in the other copy. They are not in that which was preferred. On June 3 he wrote that he was suffering from 'a very serious and troublesome fit of the gout. I enjoy all the dignity of lameness. I receive ladies and dismiss them sitting. Painful pre-eminence. Piozzi Letters, i. 337. 'Painful pre-eminence' comes from Addison's Cato, act iii. sc. 5.
Johnson wrote on Sept. 30: 'Barley-broth is a constant dish, and is made well in every house. A stranger, if he is prudent, will secure his share, for it is not certain that he will be able to eat anything else. Piozzi Letters, i. p. 160. See ante. p. 24. Genesis, ix. 6. My worthy, intelligent, and candid friend, Dr.
'Little did I once think, he wrote to her the same day, 'of seeing this region of obscurity, and little did you once expect a salutation from this verge of European life. I have now the pleasure of going where nobody goes, and seeing what nobody sees. Piozzi Letters, i. 120.
For this diminution of regard, however, I know not whether I ought to blame you, who may have reasons which I cannot know, and I do not blame myself, who have for a great part of human life done you what good I could, and have never done you evil. Piozzi Letters, ii. 268. 'I have loved you, he continued, 'with virtuous affection; I have honoured you with sincere esteem.
For Mrs. Green, Mrs. Cobb, Mr. Taylor, see ante, ii. 462-473. Dr. Erasmus Darwin, the physiologist and poet, grandfather of Charles Darwin. Mrs. Piozzi when at Florence wrote: 'I have no roses equal to those at Lichfield, where on one tree I recollect counting eighty-four within my own reach; it grew against the house of Dr. Darwin. Piozzi's Journey, i. 278.
This, Boswell says, disturbed him.... There was no echo; such is the fidelity of report. Piozzi Letters, i. 156. 'Law or low signifies a hill: ex. gr. Wardlaw, guard hill, Houndslow, the dog's hill. Blackie's Etymological Geography, p. 103. Pepys often mentions them.
The lady, though short, had such an air of resolution and her eyes shot such lively sparks of anger hid under a show of good humour that I looked to see Miss Burney sink at my feet. She also was in a horrid fright if panting breath and fading cheeks may be trusted. I would now have fled but she detained me by the hand and presented me to a sweeping curtsey from Mrs Piozzi.
Thrale: 'You would not have me for fear of pain perish in putrescence. I shall, I hope, with trust in eternal mercy lay hold of the possibility of life which yet remains. Piozzi Letters, ii. 312. I want length of life, and you fear giving me pain, which I care not for. Another day, 'when Mr. Cruikshank scarified his leg, he cried out, "Deeper, deeper.
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