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Piozzi wrote, "Let me hope that you will not pursue geology till it leads you into doubts destructive of all comfort in this world and all happiness in the next"? The Master paused and I remained silent, for I was thinking things I could not say. It is well always to have a woman near by when one is talking on this class of subjects.
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.
"It is so difficult," cried he with quickness, "for anything to be wrong that belongs to you, that it can only be I that am in the wrong chair to keep you from the right one." Dr. Burney's Memoirs, ii. 345. He wrote on June 23: 'What man can do for man has been done for me. Piozzi Letters, ii.278.
The improvements of the Scotch are for immediate profit; they do not yet think it quite worth their while to plant what will not produce something to be eaten or sold in a very little time. Piozzi Letters, i. 121. 'This was the first time, and except one the last, that I found any reason to complain of a Scottish table. Johnson's Works, ix. 19.
Siddons' last appearance there he witnessed, when she played Calista to Dimond's Lothario, in which he looked so like Garrick it shocked us all three, I believe; for Garrick adored Mr. Piozzi, and Siddons hated the little great man to her heart. Poor Dimond! he was a well-bred, pleasing, worthy creature, and did the honours of his own house and table with peculiar grace indeed.
He is of opinion that if it does not fail, it will succeed, but if it does not succeed he conceives it must fail. Piozzi Letters, ii. 41. Baretti, in a marginal note on his copy, says that B is Dr. Burney. He adds: 'The musical scheme was the Carmen Seculare. That brought me £150 in three nights, and three times as much to Philidor.
Piozzi; who read the "Vicar of Wakefield" the day it was published; who had heard Haydn, the composer, playing at a concert, "dressed out with a sword"; who had listened to Talleyrand's best sayings from his own lips; who had seen John Wesley lying dead in his coffin, "an old man, with the countenance of a little child"; who had been with Beckford at Fonthill; who had seen Porson slink back into the dining-room after the company had left it and drain what was left in the wineglasses; who had crossed the Apennines with Byron; who had seen Beau Nash in the height of his career dancing minuets at Bath; who had known Lady Hamilton in her days of beauty, and seen her often with Lord Nelson; who was in Fox's room when that great man lay dying; and who could describe Pitt from personal observation, speaking always as if his mouth was "full of worsted."
Gregory challenges you for an Iceland expedition; but I trust there is no need; I suppose good eyes might reach it from some of the places you have been in. Piozzi Letters, i. 188. Johnson wrote to Baretti: 'I wish you had staid longer in Spain, for no country is less known to the rest of Europe. Ante, i. 365. He twice recommended Boswell to perambulate Spain. Ante, i. 410, 455. 'Dr.
If she had a good fortune and kept a good cook, people would even go and dine with her in spite of the misalliance, and actually treat Mr. Piozzi with civility. After Ranelagh, and pursuant to Madam Bernstein's advice, George returned to her ladyship's house, whilst Harry showed himself at the club, where gentlemen were accustomed to assemble at night to sup, and then to gamble.
Salusbury, who deems it of too private and delicate a character to be submitted to strangers, but has kindly supplied me with some curious passages from it. Hayward's Piozzi, i. 6. Ib. p. 51 . BOSWELL. Anec. p. 193 . BOSWELL. See ante, ii. 285, and iii. 440. Johnson's Works, i. 152, 3. In vol. ii. of the Piozzi Letters some of these letters are given. He gave Miss Thrale lessons in Latin. Mme.
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