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Excerpt from Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey Through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. 1 of 2I was made to observe at Rome some vestiges of an ancient custom very proper in those days - it was the parading of the streets by a set of people called Precioe, who went some minutes before the Flamen Dialis to bid the inhabitants leave work or play, and attend wholly to the procession, but if ill omens prevented the pagea...

Excerpt from Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL. D : During the Last Twenty Years of His LifeMrs. Piozzi, by her second marriage, was by her first marriage the Mrs. Thrale in whose house at Streatham Doctor Johnson was, after the year of his first introduction, 1765, in days of infirmity, an honoured and a cherished friend. The year of the beginning of the friendship was the year in which Johnson, fifty-six years old, obtained his degree...

Excerpt from Letters to and From the Late Samuel Johnson, LL. D , Vol. 1 of 2: To Which Are Added, Some Poems, Never Before PrintedThey who solicit the favour of the Publick are often led to lament the instability of its regard, and volumes have been written to deter men from trying ever to obtain that which is acknowledged so difficult to keep: yet numbers still endeavour, in spite of admonition, to fit upon themselves that fairy garland, whi...

Excerpt from Retrospection, Vol. 1 of 2: Or, a Review of the Most Striking and Important EventsHere then begin we a fummary account of what has happened in thefe eighteen centuries. I thought to have given fome importance to the work, by prefixing on its firfi page the name of one of my earliefi and molt refpeét ed friends - than whom no wit, no feholar, nor no man of general knowledge, ever had more reafon to delight in Retrofibeé'z'z'on but ...

Excerpt from Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale): Edited With Notes and an Introductory Account of Her Life and WritingsIf the two most conspicuous amongst these have hitherto gained notoriety rather than what is commonly understood by fame, a.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an importan...

Excerpt from British Synonymy, or an Attempt at Regulating the Choice of Words in Familiar Conversation, Vol. 1 of 2: Inscribed, With Sentiments of Gratitude and Respect, to Such of Her Foreign Friends as Have Made English Literature Their Peculiar StudyI imitate his delicacy of difcrimi nation, and felicity of exprellion, while that general power of think ing, which Boileau fays is the fir¿: quality of every written perform ance, gives a vivi...

Excerpt from British Synonymy, or an Attempt at Regulating the Choice of Words in Familiar Conversation, Vol. 2 of 2With Sentiments of Gratitude and Refpeét. To fuck of her qeign Friends as have made Englifh Literatum their peculiar Study.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books us...

Excerpt from British Synonymy, or an Attempt at Regulating the Choice of Words in Familiar Conversation, Vol. 1 of 2: Inscribed, With Sentiments of Gratitude and Respect, to Such of Her Foreign Friends as Have Made English Literature Their Peculiar StudyHomer then, prince of poets, relates that Minerva appeared to Biomed in the battle, 'and clearing his fight, fet to view the warring deities, giving him power to dif cem which were gods and whi...

Excerpt from British Synonymy, or an Attempt at Regulating the Choice of Words in Familiar Conversation, Vol. 1 of 2: Inscribed, With Sentiments of Gratitude and Respect, to Such of Her Foreign Friends as Have Made English Literature Their Peculiar StudyHomer then, prince of poets, relates that Minerva appeared to Biomed in the battle, 'and clearing his fight, fet to view the warring deities, giving him power to dif cem which were gods and whi...

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The writer and society hostess Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741-1821) is best remembered as a friend and biographer of Samuel Johnson. This enlarged second edition of her autobiographical writings, edited by the essayist Abraham Hayward (1801-84) and incorporating correspondence, marginalia and poetry, was published in 1861.

Hester Piozzi's 1789 Observations of her travels around Europe with her second husband is a witty and fascinating account, full of conversational anecdotes and local colour, which today make it a valuable work of social history, as well as the entertaining travel book that it was originally intended to be.

Excerpt from Retrospection, or a Review of the Most Striking and Important Events, Characters, Situations, and Their Consequences, Which the Last Eighteen Hundred Years Have Presented to the View of Mankind, Vol. 1 of 2 F the Rambler is right when he fays, That no man ever obtains more from his molt zealous endea vours, than a painful conviétion of his own defects, how firongly mutt that conviétion prefs upon her mind, who having colleéted al...