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South Atlantic Quarterly (1987) 86 (2): 183–184.
Published: 01 April 1987
...Elizabeth Hedrick Hester Thrale Piozzi: Portrait of a Literary Woman . By William McCarthy. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1985 . Pp. xiii , 306 . $28.00 . Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Book Reviews 183 breach . . . seen as being below the nude...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1978) 77 (3): 378–379.
Published: 01 July 1978
...Lodwick Hartley The Thrales of Streatham Park: Journal of an eighteenth-century family . By Hyde Mary . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1977 . Pp. xi , 373 . $15.00 . Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 378 The South Atlantic Quarterly toes, and gravy he...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1978) 77 (3): 376–378.
Published: 01 July 1978
.... NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY DONALD T. TORCHIANA The Thrales of Streatham Park: Journal of an eighteenth-cen­ tury family. By Mary Hyde. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1977. Pp. xi, 373. $15.00. Samuel Johnson s introduction to Hester Salusbury Thrale, the wife of a wealthy London brewer, took place at dinner...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1978) 77 (3): 379–380.
Published: 01 July 1978
... by Duke University Press 1978 Book Reviews 379 ultimately underwent mental and physical deterioration which was at times concurrent both with deaths in the family and financial losses at the brewery, in the latter of which Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Thrale bravely joined forces to save the business. Having...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1976) 75 (2): 198–211.
Published: 01 April 1976
...Lionel Basney Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 Ah ha! Sam Johnson!I see thee Johnson s Ironic Roles Lionel Basney One Saturday morning in 1778, Johnson astonished Mrs. Thrale and Fanny Burney by talking of Bet Flint: Bet Flint! cried Mrs. Thrale; pray, who is she? Oh...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1973) 72 (4): 587–605.
Published: 01 October 1973
..., Life, I, 249. In spite of the close association of Johnson and Boswell, there were those who as readily paired the Doctor and Beauclerk. John­ son and Boswell put me in Mind of Cato and Juba, Mrs. Thrale wrote in 1777; I told them so, and both were pleased: Miss Reynolds said, Johnson and Beauclerc...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1985) 84 (3): 264–279.
Published: 01 July 1985
... by the ceremonies of conferring the degrees. Among them, and thus senior to his friend Johnson as an Oxford D.C.L., was the brewer Henry Thrale, although Boswell never refers to him as Doctor Thrale. The Great Highbrow 265 the appellation himself, as most sensible writers, such as Wordsworth and T. S. Eliot, also...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1986) 85 (3): 239–251.
Published: 01 July 1986
... a neglected but substantial minor literary form. Those that have no point are amazing in their perfunctoriness, yet significant as relics of that developing feeling for the nature of fame. Those with a point are easiest to deal with. Mrs. Thrale, for example, writes This same Steele desired to be introduced...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1940) 39 (2): 203–212.
Published: 01 April 1940
... once humorously said to Mrs. Thrale, as they examined a picture of himself by Reynolds: I shall not be known to posterity for my defects alone, let Sir Joshua do his worst, and the prophecy has been fulfilled j but his eccentricities have all too often thrown a deep shadow upon the many virtues...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1987) 86 (4): 569–571.
Published: 01 October 1987
..., Jr., Annals of American Literature 1602-1983 (Oliver W. Ferguson) 208 McCarthy, William, Hester Thrale Piozzi: Portrait of a Literary Woman (Elizabeth Hedrick) 183 Owens, Louis, John Steinbeck s Re-vision of America (Glenn O. Carey) 89 Reed, Robert Rentoul, Jr., Crime and God sJudgment in Shakespeare...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1948) 47 (4): 580–582.
Published: 01 October 1948
... the Thrales and met Dr. Johnson there. Some of the anecdotes he tells are already familiar from Boswell s account, but several are quite new. The stories as Campbell tells them seem cruder and exaggerate the rougher sides of Johnson s nature. The old Hottentot and Campbell 582 The South Atlantic Quarterly...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1987) 86 (2): 181–183.
Published: 01 April 1987
... were a picture. Regardless of his ability with sexual connotations and abstractions, Hagstrum has an admirably sharp eye for artistic detail. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN JACK STILLINGER Hester Thrale Piozzi: Portrait of a Literary Woman. By William McCar­ thy. Chapel Hill: University...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1979) 78 (4): 522–524.
Published: 01 October 1979
... study a figure like Gelalledin in Idler 75, who, Johnson told Mrs. Thrale, had some relation to himself when he started on his career. Here, boldly thrusting aside irrelevant detail, the biographer can reveal that bal­ ance of praise and blame which, in Mr. Schwartz s judgment, con­ stitutes the major...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1968) 67 (3): 513–526.
Published: 01 July 1968
... been considered to be by­ standers Boswell, Mrs. Thrale, and even Dr. Johnson himself. So much for the thesis that had its greatest relevance to the primary target. The last sentence of the same paragraph parodying Dr. Johnson s comment upon a certain leg of muttonThis edition is ill compiled, ill...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1915) 14 (1): 68–74.
Published: 01 January 1915
..., for example, the mediocre Fanny Burney or Hester Thrale Piozzi with Mrs. Browning, who was, with Dante Gabriel Rossetti, one of the two foremost English sonneteers of the Victorian Era. Compare Miss Bur­ ney or Mrs. Piozzi with Rossetti s gifted sister Christina; or with Jane Austen, supreme realist...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1957) 56 (2): 217–223.
Published: 01 April 1957
... from matter, mind from body, and science from humane learning, Johnson s theory of cognition was Aristotelian, accepting fully the existence of an outside world that was objectively knowable. When Johnson wrote to Mrs. Thrale in the 1770 s that he was lonely as he grew older, he meant simply that he...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1922) 21 (2): 144–151.
Published: 01 April 1922
.... London, 1804. Doctor Johnson and the Occult 149 It is not, however, upon such evidence alone that we must base our conclusions in regard to Doctor Johnson s attitude toward the occult. Mrs. Piozzi, who as Mrs. Thrale was one of the lexicographer s most intimate friends, remarks in her Anecdotes...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1929) 28 (1): 71–82.
Published: 01 January 1929
... had perhaps more than enough petty hatreds. He never fails to impress upon us that Oliver Goldsmith was a nuisance. Mrs. Thrale exasperated him; she kept lion Johnson too often and too successfully in leading strings; she was a rival biographer. Sir John Hawkins poor, discursive Knight came...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1975) 74 (2): 212–223.
Published: 01 April 1975
... had once offended by su­ ing his back-door neighbor for hammering (by Hawkins esti­ mate) 20,000 nails into the bricks and mortar of the Hawkins greenhouse. On April 5, 1781, Boswell found Hawkins at Bolt Court advising Johnson on his role as executor of the estate of the brewer Henry Thrale, who had...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1971) 70 (2): 149–160.
Published: 01 April 1971
... Lady Knight never returned to England. From Toulouse she went to Palermo, where she died in 1799. in a letter written in 1792, Horace Wal­ pole mentioned having heard his friend Miss Berry talk of a mad Lady Knight with a learned daughter there ; and Mrs. Thrale once lamented the social consequences...