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Thus on July 27, 1780, he writes: 'As if I might not correspond with my Queeney, and we might not tell one another our minds about politicks or morals, or anything else. Queeney and I are both steady and may be trusted; we are none of the giddy gabblers, we think before we speak. Piozzi Letters, ii. 169.
Piozzi, have been together on a party of pleasure to see the renowned Vallombrosa, and came home contradicting Milton, who says the devils lay bestrewn Thick as autumnal leaves in Vallombrosa: Whereas, say they, the trees are all evergreen in those woods.
Johnson into a sudden request for pardon, and protestation of not having ever intended to accuse his friend of a falsehood. Hayward's Piozzi, i. 312. In the original, 'nor. Works, viii. 311. In the original, 'either wise or merry. In the original, 'stands upon record'. Works, viii. 316.
Of one passage I must take notice; it is a little indirect sneer at our crowd of authoresses. My choosing to send this to you, is a proof that I think you an author, that is, a classic. But, in truth, I am nauseated by the Madams Piozzi, &c., and the host of novel-writers in petticoats, who think they imitate what is inimitable, "Evelina" and "Cecilia."
Post, July 3, 1778. Three months earlier Johnson wrote to Mrs. Thrale: 'We are not far from the great year of a hundred thousand barrels, which, if three shillings be gained upon each barrel, will bring us fifteen thousand pounds a year. Piozzi Letters, i. 357. We may see how here, as elsewhere, he makes himself almost one with the Thrales. See ante, p. 97. Mrs. Aston.
Moore seems worthy of his office, which, when justly considered, is a very important one. London Mag. 1783, p. 204. For the quarrel between the City and the Court, see ante, iii. 201. See ante, i. 387. Knox in Winter Evenings, No. xi. 'Biography, he complains, 'is every day descending from its dignity. See ante, i. 222, note 1. Piozzi Letters, ii. 256.
'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.
Hogarth had it for a year with an intention to engrave it, and even went so far as almost to finish the plate, which, as he told me himself, he broke into pieces upon finding that after many trials he could not bring the woman's head to answer his idea, or to resemble the picture. The lady, let us note, is a portrait of Miss Hester Lynch Salusbury, afterwards Mrs. Thrale and Madame Piozzi.
Thrale about her husband's will: 'Do not let those fears prevail which you know to be unreasonable; a will brings the end of life no nearer. Piozzi Letters, ii. 72. I bequeath to GOD, a soul polluted with many sins, but I hope purified by JESUS CHRIST. I leave seven hundred and fifty pounds in the hands of Bennet Langton, Esq.; three hundred pounds in the hands of Mr. Barclay and Mr.
Hawkins is mistaken in saying that they had a second meeting at a tavern at the end of a month; for Johnson, on March 10, 1784, wrote: 'I have been confined from the fourteenth of December, and know not when I shall get out. Piozzi Letters, ii. 351. He thus describes these meetings: 'Dec. 13.
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