Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson During: The Last Twenty Years of His Life; His Life (Classic Reprint): During the Last Twenty Years of His Life (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL. D: During the Last Twenty Years of His Life

Henry Thrale, whom she married, was the head Of the great brewery house now known as that Of Barclay and Perkins. Henry Thrale's father had succeeded Edmund Halsey, who began life by run ning away from his father, a miller at St. Albans. Halsey was taken in as a clerktof-all-work at the Anchor Brewhouse in Southwark, became a house clerk able enough to please Child, his. Master, and handsome enough to please his master's daughter. He married the daughter and succeeded to Child's Brewery, made much money, and had himself an Only daughter, whom he married to a lord. Henry Thrale's father was a nephew Of. Halsey's, who had worked in the brewery for twenty years, when.

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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 of LL.D. from Dublin, and though he never called himself Doctor was thenceforth called Doctor by all his friends. Before her marriage Mrs. Piozzi had been Miss Hesther Lynch Salusbury, a young lady of a good Welsh family. She was born in the year 1740, and she lived until the year 1821. She celebrated her eightieth birthday on the 27th of January, 1820, by a concert, ball, and supper to six or seven hun dred people, and led off the dancing at the ball with an adopted son for partner.
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