Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)

5 Nov., 1815. Accept, dear Sir, this second-hand copy of your poor little friend's favorite work, now completely out of print. That it should bear the name of Samuel Johnson on the title page, is so curious, that I would not erase it.

Ten years at fewest must have elapsed since the author of the "Rambler" had breathed his last, when this book saw the light: and he to whom I have now the honor of presenting it, was struggling between the perils of fire and water in the midst of the Atlantic Ocean. Awful Retrospect! Yet a lightly volant pen traces the following lines, only to say that

In this Synonymy you'll find
Portraits from poor Floretta's mind;
With many a tale and many a jest,
By which her fancy was imprest.
Oh! had that fancy been acquainted
With characters too late displayed,
Far happier pictures had been painted,
Far stronger light and softer shade.
Beneath the life-preserving hand,
How had we seen the soldier stand!
Or kneel, instructed to adore
Him who bestow'd the healing power.
But merit, dazzling men to blindness,
Was still reserved for Piozzi's Finis.

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Johnson's epigram on her, 28.

"Atlas" man-of-war, the, 242.

Atmospheric stones, 311.

Baretti, passages in Dr. Johnson's letters
relating to, 114.

his papers in the "European Mag-
azine," 115.

his death, 115.

his rupture with Dr. Johnson, 116.
his character, sketched by Mrs.
Thrale, 116, 481, 488, 489.

the comedy of the "Sentimental
Mother," 117.

lines on his portrait, 256.

Barnard, Dr., Provost of Eton, John-
son's remarks on, quoted, 39, note.
Barrow, his description of Wit, quoted,

155.

Bassi's verses, 266

translation of, 266.

Bath, riots in, 458.

Bayntun, Admiral Sir H., 474, note.
Beadon, Dr., 468.

Bearcroft, Mr., anecdotes of, 137.
Beauclerc, Lady Diana, 103.
Beauclerc, Topham, 238, 276.
Bells, names of, 373.

Autobiographical Memoirs of Mrs. Pi- Beloe, his "Sexagenarian," 399.

ozzi, 161 et seq.

Bâch y Graig, Dr. Johnson's description
of, 49, 173.

"Bæviad and Mæviad," origin of the,

90.

Bagot, Mrs., 298.
Baillie, Joanna, 436.
Balbus, story of, 355.
Banks, Sir Joseph, 410, 412.

Barclay, Mr., the Quaker, purchases
Mr. Thrale's brewery, 64, 108, 202.
Baretti, Signor Giuseppe, his verses,
quoted, 18.

accompanies Dr. Johnson and the
Thrales on a tour to France, 53.
history of, 54.

his trial for murder, 55.

his introduction to the Thrales, 56.
Dr. Warton's opinion of him, 56.
account of him by Dr. Campbell,

57.

his dislike of Boswell, 58.

Bentley, Dr. Richard, his verses on
Learning, 223.
Bertola's verses, 276.

his fables, 277.
Betty, the actor. 317.

Blue-Stocking Clubs, origin of the, 14.
Bodryddan, visited by Johnson, 50.
Bodville, Mrs. Thrale's birthplace, 51.
Boethius, Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Thrale's
translations from, 31, 222.

Bolingbroke, Lord, anecdote of Johnson
and, 102.

Bolingbroke, Lady, 276.
Bolton, Duke of, Lord Harry Powlett,
anecdote of, 252.

Bonaparte, intelligence of his meditated
escape from Elba, 231.
military tactics, 243.

his expedition to Egypt, 296.
pasquinade on, 316.

the Apocalyptic beast, 319.
Boothby, Miss Hill, Johnson's admira-
tion for, 16.

Boswell, James, his character as a bi- | Byron, Lord, his estimate of life at thirty-

ographer, 2.

his "Letters to Temple," and
"Boswelliana," 2.

his account of Johnson's introduc-
tion into Mr. Thrale's family
quoted, 6.

his jealousy of Mrs. Thrale, 6.
his first visit to Streatham Park, 25.
arranges an interview between
Johnson and Lord Marchmont,

26.

his conversations at Streatham, 27.
his version of Johnson's epigram
on Mary Aston, 28.

his proposed poetical epistle to
Johnson, 30.

his dislike of Baretti, 58.
Walpole's remarks on his "Anec-
dotes of Dr. Johnson, 90.
reasons for his depreciating Mrs.
Piozzi, 90.

Peter Pindar's satire on, quoted, 99.
Boulogne, Mrs. Piozzi's account of, 122.
Bouverie, Mrs., 233.
Bowdler, Rev. Dr., 61.

Bowles, Mr., shooting his nephew, 421.
Bowles, Rev. W., and his fountain, 50,

note.

Boyce, Johnson's description of, 221.

his verses to Cave, 221.

Bramah and his air-balloon, 327.
Brighton, Dr. Johnson at, 65.

five quoted, 20.

his estimate of Italian singers, 71.
his description of Curran and Mad-
ame de Staël, 155.
his "Cain," 454.

Cader Idris, 306.
Campbell, Dr. Thomas, his
quoted, 56, note.

Diary"

Mrs. Thrale's account of him. 57.
his account of the mode of life at

Streatham, 57.

Capetian Dynasty, story of the, 317.
Capua, poverty of, 378.

Caraboo, Princess of Jarasu, 390, 391.
Careless, of the "Blue Posts," and Mrs.
Thrale, 41.

Carlton House, 298.

Carlyle, the bookseller, 453, 454.
Caroline of Anspach, Queen, and Sir
Woolston Dixie, anecdote of, 233.
Caroline, Queen, at Bath, 400, 401, 408.
her death, 411.

her trial, 466.

Caroline of Naples, story of, 84.
Carter, Mrs., her "Letters," 389.
Catamaran, 218.

Cathcart, Lady, in "Castle Rackrent,"
78.

Catherine, Empress of Russia, verses
on, 226.

Catholic question, 417, 429.

Bristow, Caroline (afterwards Mrs. Lyt- Cator, Mr., 196, 197, 201.

telton), 52.

Dr. Johnson's remark on, 104.
Cave, Boyce's verses to, 221.
Cervantes, 329.

Chalmers "Modern Astronomy," 356.
Chamberlayne, Mr., his verses, "The
Pleiades," 225.
Chambers, Sir Robert, 211.

lines on his portrait, 255.
Chantilly, Mrs. Piozzi's account of, 122.
Chappelow, Mr., 384, 385.

Charles Edward, the young Pretender,
at Florence, 226.

Charlotte, the Princess, her marriage,
349.

her death, 401.
Charlotte, Queen, 112.
Chester, walls of, 49.

Chesterfield, Philip Dormer, Earl of, 120.
Christmas, old customs at, 311.
Churchill, the poet, quoted, 237.
Cicisbeism in Italy, 126.
Clinton, Lord John, 61.

Club, the Literary, formation of the, 13.
Club, Hell-fire, incident at the, 238, note.
Clubs, the Blue-Stocking, origin of the,

14.

Clwyd, the river, 49.

Cobbett, William, 327, 372, 467.
Coligny, Henrietta de, verses on, 225.

Collier, Dr., 171.

educates Miss Hester Lynch Sal-
usbury, 171.

Mrs. Piozzi's account of, 209.
Comber, Mr., his verses, 444.
Combermere Abbey, Johnson's visit to,
52.

Condé, Prince of, anecdote of the, 123,
124.

Congreve, W., his "Way of the World"
quoted, 29.

Conway, Mr. Shipley, 50, note.
Conway, W. A., and Mrs Piozzi, 143,
436, 441, 446, 452, 456, 471, 472.
notice of him, 143.

D'Arblay, Madame, her description of
the Streatham portraits, 251.
her Camilla," 298.

her" Wanderer," 308.
Mrs. Piozzi's account of her, 484.
Davenant, Mrs., 61, 220.
Davis, Eliza, story of, 387.
Davison's verses on Dido, 276.
Death, Dr. Johnson's letter upon, 111.
Delamira of the "Tatler," 234.
Delap, Dr., 65, 103.

Della Crusca verses, 270.
Demosthenes, Johnson's remark on, 29.
Dent, "Dog," and his bill on dogs, 303.
Desmoulins, Mrs., 11.

his letter to Mrs. Piozzi's execu- Dido, verses on, 276.

tors, 150.

Conway, 446, 447, 471, 472.

"Corinne" quoted, 78, note.
Corsini, Prince, 81.

Corsini, Cardinal, 81.

Cotton, Mrs., her cascade, 50.

Cotton, George (afterwards Dean of
Chester, 418.

Cotton, Sir Lynch, Johnson's visit and
rudeness to, 52.

Cotton, Sir Robert Salusbury, 166.
Cowper, Countess, 226.

Cowper, William, quoted, 361.

Coxe's "Life of the Duke of Marlbor-
ough," 420.

Crewe, Mrs., 233, 236, 428.
Croker, Right Hon. John Wilson, Lord
Macaulay's remarks on his edi-
tions of Boswell's "Johnson
quoted, 21.

his translation of Johnson's epi-
gram on Mary Croker, 28.
his account of the correspondence
between Dr. Johnson and Mrs.
Piozzi on her marriage, 73.
Cumberland, Duke and Duchess of, 80.
Curran, J. P., Byron's description of
him, 155.

Custom House, fire at the, 308.
Cuzzona, the actress, story of, 133.

epigrams, 275.

Divorces, conversation at Streatham
on, 27.

Dixie, Sir Woolston, and Queen Caro-
line, 233.

Dobson, Dr., 189.

Eglintoun, Lady, 294.
Elton, Mr., 453.

English, John, his epitaph, 304.
Enigma, an, 446.
Epaminondas, 243.
Esher in Surrey, 295.
Etruscan pottery, 352.

Exmouth, liberation of slaves, 399.
Exmouth, Lord, Christian slaves liber-
ated by, in Rome, 314.

Faber's prophecy for 1866, 404.
"Fable for April, 1815, a," 319.
Fables of Bertola, 277.
Falmouth, Lord, 241.
"Fancy, Imagination," 181.
Farinelli, the singer, 416.
Farmer, Dr., 439.

Ferrier, Miss, the novelist, 426.
Fidele, Casa, Mrs. Piozzi's account of
the, 193.

Fielding, Henry, his disregard of the
value of money, 141.

Sally, sister of the novelist, 178.

Fox, Lady Caroline, 211.

death of his mother, 402. Greenlanders, 442.

Fox, Charles James, his verses, "The Gunnings, the Miss, 218.

Planets," 224.

his character, 235.

his talents, 238.

France, Johnson's tour in, 53.

verses on, in 1792, 323. "Frankenstein," 404, 441.

Franklin, Benjamin, Wedderburne's re-
mark on, 239.

Mrs. Piozzi's account of, 239.
Mr. Dale's lines on, 240.
French, Mrs. Piozzi's sketch of the,

124.

Gwaynyog, Dr. Johnson at, 51.

Hagley, Johnson's visit to, 52.
Hales, Dr., and his prophecy, 410, 412.
Halifax, Lord, 168, 172.

Halsey, Edmund, uncle of the elder
Thrale, Mrs. Thrale's note respecting
his rise, 5.

Hamilton, Archdeacon, 234.
Hamilton, Lady Archibald, 234.
Hamilton, Single-speech, supposed an-
thor of "Letters of Junius," 235.
Hampton Court Palace, 354.

Gainsborough, the painter, anecdote of, Harrington, Dr., 342, 344, 350.

'Herald, The Morning," verses on Mrs.
Thrale in the, quoted, 33.

Hogarth, William, his portrait of Mrs.
Thrale, in the "Lady's Last
Stake," 24, 177, 337.

his impromptu addressed to Mr.
Tighe, 336.

Holland, Sir Henry, Bart., 156, 342,
343.

Holywell, Johnson at, 50.
Hone, Mr., 404.
Hook, Matilda, 409.
Hope, 377.

Huggins, W., the translation of Ariosto,
and Baretti, 56.

Hunt, Mr., 450.

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