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Excerpt from Mrs. Thrale, Afterwards Mrs. Piozzi: A Sketch of Her Life and Passages From Her Diaries, Letters and Other Writings Macaulay's Account of the Flight to Italy - Obloquy - Insults from Baretti Continuing Regard for Johnson - His Death - Projected Work on Him The Florence Miscellany - The Anecdotes - Rupture with Boswell - In accuracies in the Anecdotes - Shows Resentment against Johnson - Wal pole's Censures - Sale of the Book - Peter Pindar - Bozzyand Piozzi - Extracts - Miss Thrale - The Piozzis Return to England - Their Reception - Miss Seward's Impressions of Mrs. Piozzi and her Husband 274-290. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.