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Having given this explanation, I am at liberty to use that mode of speech which generally prevails in the Highlands and the Hebrides. See ante, iii. 275. Boswell implies that Sir A. Macdonald's table had not been furnished plentifully. Johnson wrote: 'At night we came to a tenant's house of the first rank of tenants, where we were entertained better than at the landlord's. Piozzi Letters, i. 141.
Johnson in the same letter says that 'New Aberdeen is built of that granite which is used for the new pavement in London. 'In Aberdeen I first saw the women in plaids. Piozzi Letters, i. 116. Seven years later Mackintosh, on entering King's College, found there the son of Johnson's old friend, 'the learned Dr.
Thrale are the original of that work of which the Journey to the Hebrides is the translation; and it is amusing to compare the two versions. Macaulay thereupon quotes these two passages. See ante, under Aug. 29, 1783. 'We had a lemon and a piece of bread, which supplied me with my supper.'Piozzi Letters, i, 136.
I am now as well as men at my age can expect to be, and I yet think I shall be better. Piozzi Letters, ii. 163. From a stroke of apoplexy. Johnson wrote to Mrs. Thrale: 'You really do not use me well in thinking that I am in less pain on this occasion than I ought to be.
I know not if I have not turned a hundred. Piozzi Letters, ii. 364.
Piozzi built the house for me, he said; my own old chateau, Bachygraig by name, tho' very curious, was wholly uninhabitable; and we called the Italian villa he set up as mine in the Vale of Cluid, North Wales, Brynbella, or the beautiful brow, making the name half Welsh and half Italian, as we were." Here they lived, with occasional visits to other places, during the remainder of Piozzi's life.
In its unintentional revelations it shows us the feebleness without the dignity of old age, vivacity without freshness of intellect, the pretence without the reality of sentiment. "Hapless H.L.P." to have lived to eighty years, and to close the record of so long a life with such words! A little more than a year after this "Abridgment" was written, in May, 1821, Mrs. Piozzi died.
Yet he is not reviled on account of his Thrale nor, indeed, is his Thrale now seriously reproached for her Piozzi. But Macaulay has not left us heirs to his indignation. His well-known way was to exhaust those possibilities of effect in which the commonplace is so rich. And he was permitted to point his paragraphs as he would, not only by calling Mrs.
BOSWELL. Barry, in one of his pictures, placed Johnson between the two beautiful duchesses of Rutland and Devonshire, pointing to their Graces Mrs. Montagu as an example. He expresses his 'reverence for his consistent, manly, and well-spent life. Barry's Works, ii. 339. Johnson, in his turn, praises 'the comprehension of Barry's design. Piozzi Letters, ii. 256.
Piozzi censured I could comprehend the high romantic notion with which she had entered on her marriage, and the more so, since I had been credibly informed that Mr Piozzi was in all respects admirable could he but have had the blessing to be born an Englishman and Protestant. "Dear Miss P., I trust to you to keep this painful meeting a secret," said my companion.
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