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His charity was unbounded; he proposed to allow himself one hundred a year out of the three hundred of his pension; but the Thrales could never discover that he really spent upon himself more than 70l., or at most 80l. He had numerous dependants, abroad as well as at home, who "did not like to see him latterly, unless he brought 'em money."
Thrale was born in 1740 or 1741, probably the latter. The Thrales were introduced to Johnson by their common friend, Arthur Murphy, an actor and dramatist, who afterwards became the editor of Johnson's works. One day, when calling upon Johnson, they found him in such a fit of despair that Thrale tried to stop his mouth by placing his hand before it.
I am a kind of ship with a wide sail, and without an anchor. Ante, ii. 387, note 2. In the spring of this year everything was settled for his journey to Italy with the Thrales. 'Johnson and Mr. Boswell have this day set out for Oxford, Lichfield, &c., that the Doctor may take leave of all his old friends previous to his great expedition across the Alps.
I would rather hear the history of the Thrales. When on Mull, I said, 'Well, sir, this is the fourth of the Hebrides that we have been upon. JOHNSON. 'Nay, we cannot boast of the number we have seen. We thought we should see many more.
Streatham was a quiet country-village, separated by wide commons from London, on one of which a highwayman had been hanged who had there robbed Mr. According to Mrs. No doubt she was speaking chiefly of the summer half of the year, for in the winter time the Thrales would be often in their town house, where he also had his apartment. Mr. Cambridge, early in the year; a short visit. Ante, i. 487.
'What should we speak of When we are old as you? when we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December, how In this our pinching cave, shall we discourse The freezing hours away? We have seen nothing. With his pension his wanderings at once began. His friendship with the Thrales gave them a still wider range.
Dunning , the great lawyer, is one of our members. The Thrales are well. 'I long to know how the Negro's cause will be decided. What is the opinion of Lord Auchinleck, or Lord Hailes, or Lord Monboddo? 'I am, dear Sir, 'Your most affectionate, &c. 'July 22, 1777.
BOSWELL. Miss Burney frequently mentions him as visiting the Thrales. 'Few people do him justice, said Mrs. Thrale to her, 'because as Dr. Johnson calls him, he is an abrupt young man; but he has excellent qualities, and an excellent understanding. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, i. 141. Miss Burney, in one of her letters, says: 'Mr.
Accordingly we find him launching away in a career of social dissipation; dining and supping out; at clubs, at routs, at theaters; he is a guest with Johnson at the Thrales, and an object of Mrs. Thrale's lively sallies; he is a lion at Mrs. Vesey's and Mrs. Montagu's, where some of the high-bred blue-stockings pronounce him a "wild genius," and others, peradventure, a "wild Irishman."
Thrale calculates that, as we left Streatham on the fifteenth of September, we shall see it again about the fifteenth of November. * Written from a tour in France with the Thrales, Johnson's only visit to the Continent. Miss Thrale. 'I think I had not been on this side of the sea five days before I found a sensible improvement in my health. I ran a race in the rain this day, and beat Baretti.
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