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Thrale's daughters: 'Never think, my sweet, that you have arithmetick enough; when you have exhausted your master, buy books. ... A thousand stories which the ignorant tell and believe die away at once when the computist takes them in his gripe. Piozzi Letters, ii. 296. See post, April 18, 1783. See ante, p. 116; also iii. 310, where he bore the same topic impatiently when with Dr. Scott.
'When you come hither, pray bring with you Baxter's Anacreon . I cannot get that edition in London. On Friday, March 31, having arrived in London the night before, I was glad to find him at Mrs. Thrale's house, in Argyll-street, appearances of friendship between them being still kept up. I was shewn into his room, and after the first salutation he said, 'I am glad you are come.
Marrowbone's hair was the only point he could seize on. A cat, asleep on the hearthrug, supplied a standard of comparison. "Granny Marrowbone's head's the colour of this," said Dave, with decision, selecting a pale grey stripe. And Widow Thrale's was like that one with a deeper tone of brown, with scarcely any perceptible grey. "And which on Pussy is most like mine, Dave?" said Mrs. Prichard.
I have taught Veronica to speak of you thus; Dr. Johnson, not Jonston. 'I remain, my dear Sir, 'Your most affectionate, 'And obliged humble servant, 'JAMES BOSWELL. 'To JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ. 'DEAR SIR, 'The story of Mr. Thrale's death, as he had neither been sick nor in any other danger, made so little impression upon me, that I never thought about obviating its effects on any body else.
Garrick, and other eminent speakers, might be transmitted to posterity IN SCORE. Next day I dined with Johnson at Mr. Thrale's. He attacked Gray, calling him 'a dull fellow. BOSWELL. 'I understand he was reserved, and might appear dull in company; but surely he was not dull in poetry. JOHNSON. 'Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull every where.
The desire of male heirs is not appendant only to feudal tenures. A son is almost necessary to the continuance of Thrale's fortune; for what can misses do with a brewhouse? Lands are fitter for daughters than trades .
Thrale's thirty-fifth year coincided with Johnson's seventieth, she could have been only twenty-one years old in 1765. This is not all. Mr. Croker, in another place, assigns the year 1777 as the date of the complimentary lines which Johnson made on Mrs. Thrale must have been born in 1742, and could have been only twenty-three when her acquaintance with Johnson commenced. Mr.
Whether her attachment to him was already divided by another object, I am unable to ascertain; but it is plain that Johnson's penetration was alive to her neglect or forced attention; for on the eth of October this year, we find him making a 'parting use of the library at Streatham, and pronouncing a prayer, which he composed on leaving Mr. Thrale's family :
We stopped at Messieurs Dillys, booksellers in the Poultry; from whence he hurried away, in a hackney coach, to Mr. Thrale's, in the Borough. I called at his house in the evening, having promised to acquaint Mrs. Williams of his safe return; when, to my surprize, I found him sitting with her at tea, and, as I thought, not in a very good humour: for, it seems, when he had got to Mr.
Dr. John Hinchliffe. A kind of nick-name given to Mrs. Thrale's eldest daughter, whose name being Esther, she might be assimilated to a Queen. Mr. Thrale. In Johnson's Dictionary is neither dawling nor dawdling. He uses dawdle, post, June 3, 1781. Miss Burney shews how luxurious a table Mr. Thrale kept. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, i. 211. Yet when Mr.
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