Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay, Volumen 1H. Colburn, 1842 |
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Página 92 - Mr. T. — And pray who is clerk of your kitchen, sir ? Dr. J. — Why, sir, I am afraid there is none ; a general anarchy prevails in my kitchen, as I am told by Mr. Levat, who says it is not now what it used to be ! Mrs. T. — Mr. Levat, I suppose, sir, has the office of keeping the hospital in health ? for he is an apothecary. Dr. J. — Levat, madam, is a brutal fellow, but I have a good regard for him ; for his brutality is in his manners, not his mind.
Página 80 - ... instruction she had received from his writings, with the highest encomiums. For some time he heard her with that quietness which a long use of praise has given him: she then redoubled her strokes, and, as Mr. Seward calls it, peppered still more highly: till, at length, he turned suddenly to her, with a stern and angry countenance, and said, "Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.
Página 3 - This year was ushered in by a grand and most important event ! At the latter end of January, the literary world was favoured with the first publication of the ingenious, learned, and most profound Fanny Burney ! I doubt not but this memorable affair will, in future times, mark the period whence chronologers will date the zenith of the polite arts in this island ! " This admirable authoress has named her most elaborate performance, EVELINA ; or, A Toung Lady's Entrance into the World.
Página 79 - I don't flatter him," said I, "because nothing I could say would flatter him." Mrs. Thrale then told a story of Hannah Moore, which I think exceeds, in its severity, all the severe things I have yet heard of Dr. Johnson's saying. When she was introduced to him, not long ago, she began singing his praise in the warmest manner, and talking of the pleasure and the instruction she had received from his writings, with the highest encomiums. For some time he heard her with that quietness which a long use...
Página 95 - Oh, how we were all amused ! By the way I must tell you that Mrs. Montagu is in very great estimation here, even with Dr. Johnson himself, when others do not praise her improperly. Mrs. Thrale ranks her as the first of women in the literary way. I should have told you that Miss Gregory, daughter of the Gregory who wrote the " Letters/' or, " Legacy of Advice," lives with Mrs. Montagu, and was invited to accompany her. " Mark, now,
Página 298 - This was their brother, a most lovely boy of ten years of age, who seems to be not merely the wonder of their family, but of the times, for his astonishing skill in drawing. They protest he has never had any instruction, yet showed us some of his productions that were really beautiful.
Página 94 - Down with her, Burney ! — down with her! — spare her not ! — attack her, fight her, and down with her at once ! You are a rising wit, and she is at the top ; and when I was beginning the world, and was nothing and . / nobody, the joy of my life was to fire at all the established wits ! and then everybody loved to halloo me on.
Página 62 - I could not help expressing my amazement at his universal readiness upon all subjects, and Mrs. Thrale said to him, "Sir, Miss Burney wonders at your patience with such stuff; but I tell her you are used to me, for I believe I torment you with more foolish questions than anybody else dares do." "No, madam," said he, "you don't torment me; -you tease me, indeed, sometimes." "Ay, so I do, Dr. Johnson, and I wonder you bear with my nonsense.
Página 61 - And now let me try to recollect an account he gave us of certain celebrated ladies of his acquaintance: an account which, had you heard from himself, would have made you die with laughing, his manner is so peculiar, and enforces his humour so originally. It was begun by Mrs. Thrale's apologising to him for troubling him with some question she thought trifling — Oh, I remember! We had been talking of colours, and of the fantastic names given to them, and why the palest lilac should be called a soupir...
Página 107 - I remember, sir, when we were travelling in Wales, how you called me to account for my civility to the people ; ' Madam/ you said, ' let me have no more of this idle commendation of nothing. Why is it, that whatever you see, and whoever you see, you are to be so indiscriminately lavish of praise ?' 'Why I'll tell you, sir,' said I,