| [39] | This phrase of “Little Burney”—or more generally “dear little Burney”—to the sensitive Fanny’s “infinite frettation” got into print. A certain Rev. George Huddesford embodied it in a rhymed satire upon the camp which fears of French invasion had established at Warley Common in Essex, and which King George and Queen Charlotte visited in October, 1778. Johnson had gone there earlier, as the guest of Bennet Langton, who was a Captain in the Lincolnshire militia. |
| [40] | Idler, June 9 and 16, 1759. |
| [41] | See ante, p. 86. |
| [42] | Miss Hannah More’s successful tragedy of Percy was produced at Covent Garden, 10 December, 1777. |
| [43] | See Diary and Letters, 1892, i. p. 48. |
| [44] | Probably that afterwards produced at Drury Lane in 1781 as The Royal Suppliants, and based upon the Heraclidæ of Euripides. |
| [45] | Miss Burney here forgets that she had already assisted at a private view of Miss Streatfield’s performance (Diary and Letters, 1892, i. p. 135-6). |
| [46] | There is an account of the Batheaston Thursday Parnassus in a letter from Walpole to Conway, 15 January, 1775. The historical urn no longer exists. But the verses cannot have been all bad. Garrick was responsible for some of them, and Graves of The Spiritual Quixote. Another contributor was Anstey, who wrote his Election Ball for Lady Miller. |
| [47] | Autobiography, etc. of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale), by A. Hayward, 1861, (2nd edn.), i. pp. 125, 126. |
| [48] | Cymbeline, Act 1. Sc. i. |