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I should have been sorry to have missed any of the inconveniencies, to have had more light or less rain, for their co-operation crowded the scene and filled the mind. Piozzi Letters, i. 177. I never tasted whiskey except once for experiment at the inn in Inverary, when I thought it preferable to any English malt brandy.
Thrale, written two days after Boswell left, says: 'B went away on Thursday night, with no great inclination to travel northward; but who can contend with destiny? ... He carries with him two or three good resolutions; I hope they will not mould upon the road. Piozzi Letters, i. 333. 1 Corinthians, xiii. 5. This passage, which is found in Act iii, is not in the acting copy of Douglas.
Young's Night Thoughts, Night iv. See Boswell's Hebrides, Aug. 20, 1773. According to Mrs. Piozzi 'he liked the expression so well that he often repeated it. Piozzi's Anec. p. 208. He wrote to her: 'Have you not observed in all our conversations that my genius is always in extremes; that I am very noisy or very silent; very gloomy or very merry; very sour or very kind? Piozzi Letters, ii. 166.
Piozzi Letters, i. 267. I do not find the description in Young's Six Months' Tour through the North of England, but in Pilkington's Present State of Derbyshire, ii. 120. 'Quae regio in terris nostri non plena laboris? 'What place, what land in all the earth but with our grief is stored? Morris, Æneids, i. 460. See ante, March 21 and 28, 1776. At Derby.
'After a journey difficult and tedious, over rocks naked and valleys untracked, through a country of barrenness and solitude, we came, almost in the dark, to the sea-side, weary and dejected, having met with nothing but waters falling from the mountains that could raise any image of delight. Piozzi Letters, i. 170.
Piozzi, nearly twenty years later, places among 'the contradictions one meets with every moment' at Paris, 'A Countess in a morning, her hair dressed, with diamonds too perhaps, and a dirty black handkerchief about her neck. Piozzi's Journey, i. 17. See ante, ii. 403, and post, under Aug. 29, 1783. His lordship was, to the last, in the habit of telling this story rather too often.
Piozzi, says that she replied affectionately; but the letter is missing. The friendship was broken off, and during the brief remainder of Johnson's life, the Piozzis were absent from England. Of her there is little more to be said.
Oxford, part of November and December. Ante, ii. 268. Ante, ii. 285, and post, v. 427. Oxford, March; a short visit. Piozzi Letters, i. 212. Oxford, Lichfield, Ashbourn, from end of May till some time in August. Ante, ii. 381, and Piozzi Letters, i. 223-301. Brighton; apparently a brief visit in September. Croker's Boswell, p. 459. Ante, ii. 384, 401. Oxford, Lichfield, Ashbourn, March 19-29.
Indignantly have I heard women argue in the same track as men, and adopt the sentiments that brutalize them with all the pertinacity of ignorance. I must illustrate my assertion by a few examples. Mrs. Piozzi, who often repeated by rote, what she did not understand, comes forward with Johnsonian periods.
Lichfield and Ashbourn, apparently whole of July. Piozzi Letters, i. 26-32. Lichfield and Ashbourn, from June 20 to after Aug. 5. Ante, ii. 141, 142, and Piozzi Letters, i. 36-54. Lichfield and Ashbourn, from about Oct. 15 to early in December. Piozzi Letters, i. 55-69. Oxford, April; a hurried visit. Ante, ii. 235, note 2. Tour to Scotland from Aug. 6 to Nov. 26. Ante, ii. 265, 268.
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