Giuseppe Baretti: With an Account of His Literary Friendships and Feuds in Italy and in England in the Days of Dr. Johnson |
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Page 195 - consequence of a scurrilous attack in your paper upon me ' (my name is Goldsmith) and an unwarrantable liberty ' taken with the name of a young lady. As for myself I ' care little, but her name must not be sported with.
Page 257 - She led me into the house, and addressed herself almost wholly for a few minutes to my father, as if to give me an assurance she did not mean to regard me as a show, or to distress or frighten me by drawing me out. Afterwards she took me upstairs, and showed me the house, and said she had very much wished to see me at Streatham, and should always think herself much obliged to Dr Burney for his goodness in bringing me, which she looked upon as a very great favour.
Page 354 - This was thy only method to subdue me. Terror and doubt fall on me : all thy good Now blazes, all thy guilt is in the grave. Never had man such funeral applause : If I lament thee, sure thy worth was great.
Page 257 - Streatham, and should always think herself much obliged to Dr. Burney for his goodness in bringing me, which she looked upon as a very great favour. But though we were some time together, and though she was so very civil, she did not hint at my book, and I love her much more than ever for her delicacy in avoiding a subject which she could not but see would have greatly embarrassed me. When we returned to the music-room, we found Miss Thrale was with my father. Miss Thrale is a very fine girl, about...
Page 259 - Indeed, the freedom with which Dr. Johnson condemns whatever he disapproves, is astonishing ; and the strength of words he uses would, to most people, be intolerable ; but Mrs. Thrale seems to have a sweetness of disposition that equals all her other excellences, and far from making a point of vindicating herself, she generally receives his admonitions with the most respectful silence. But I fear to say all I think at present of Mrs.