. Autobiography, letters and literary remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) . Trials 185 Second Marriage 188 Residence in Italy 192 Thrales Will. — Sale of the Brewery 201 The charming S. S. 203 Thrales Illness 205 Death of Thrale 207 Dr. Collier 209 Notes on Letters To and Prom Dr. Johnson, includingnew Anecdotes of Johnson and his Cotemporaries . . .211 Notes on Wraxali/s Historical Memoirs of my ownTime, including the true Story of the Lyttelton Ghost, and Anec-dotes of various Literary and Political Celebrities .... 224 Miscellanies, or Original Compositions in Prose and Verse 245 The Three Warn
. Autobiography, letters and literary remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) . Trials 185 Second Marriage 188 Residence in Italy 192 Thrales Will. — Sale of the Brewery 201 The charming S. S. 203 Thrales Illness 205 Death of Thrale 207 Dr. Collier 209 Notes on Letters To and Prom Dr. Johnson, includingnew Anecdotes of Johnson and his Cotemporaries . . .211 Notes on Wraxali/s Historical Memoirs of my ownTime, including the true Story of the Lyttelton Ghost, and Anec-dotes of various Literary and Political Celebrities .... 224 Miscellanies, or Original Compositions in Prose and Verse 245 The Three Warnings 247 Duty and Pleasure 250 The Streatham Portraits 251 VI CONTENTS. Asheri 258 Her Character of Thrale 263 Translation of Laura Bassis Verses 266 A Frightful Story 268 Delia Crusca Verses 270 Ode to Society 273 Epigrams and Translations ....... 275 Verses on Buffon 280 Dedication and Preface of the Florence Miscellany v . 281 Occasional Verses 283 Letters . 287 Miscellaneous Extracts from u Thraliana . . 477 Extracts from British Synonymy 494 Index 521. INTRODUCTION: LIFE AND WRITINGS OF MRS. PIOZZI. INTRODUCTION LIFE AND WRITINGS OF MRS. PIOZZI. Dr. Johnson lias been hailed by acclamation the literary colos-sus of an epoch when the galaxy of British authorship sparkledwith the names of Hume, Robertson, Gibbon, Warburton, theTTartons, Fielding, Richardson, Smollett, Gray, Goldsmith, andBurke. Any one of these may have surpassed the great lexicog-rapher in some one branch of learning or domain of genius; butas a man of letters, in the highest sense of the term, he toweredpre-eminent, and his superiority to each of them (except Burke)in general acquirements, intellectual power, and force of expres-sion, was hardly contested by his contemporaries. To be associ-ated with his name has become a title of distinction in itself; andsome members of his circle enjoy, and have fairly earned, a pe-culiar advantage in this respect. In their capacity of satellitesrevolving round the sun
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