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MEMOIRS
OF
DOCTOR BURNEY.
MEMOIRS
OF
DOCTOR BURNEY,
ARRANGED
FROM HIS OWN MANUSCRIPTS, FROM FAMILY PAPERS, AND
FROM PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS.
BY
HIS DAUGHTER, MADAME d’ARBLAY.
“O could my feeble powers thy virtues trace,
By filial love each fear should be suppress’d;
The blush of incapacity I’d chace,
And stand—Recorder of Thy worth!—confess’d.”
Anonymous Dedication of Evelina, to Dr. Burney, in 1778.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
EDWARD MOXON, 64, NEW BOND STREET.
1832.
LONDON:
BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS,
BOUVERIE STREET.
MEMOIRS
OF
DOCTOR BURNEY.
Such, as far as can be gathered, or recollected, was the list of the general home circle of Dr. Burney, on his beginning residence in St. Martin’s-Street; though many persons must be omitted, not to swell voluminously a mere catalogue of names, where no comment, or memorandum of incident, has been left of them by the Doctor.
But to enumerate the friends or acquaintances with whom he associated in the world at large, would be nearly to ransack the Court Calendar, the list of the Royal Society, of the Literary Club, of all assemblages of eminent artists; and almost every other list that includes the celebrated or active characters, then moving, like himself, in the vortex of public existence.
Chiefly, however, after those already named, stood, in his estimation, Mr. Chamier, Mr. Boone, Dr. Warton, and his brother, Dr. Thomas Warton, Sir Richard Jebb, Mr. Matthias, Mr. Cox, Dr. Lind, and Mr. Planta, of the Museum.