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Thraliana I 5: Murphy was Council for Bodens, & the Cause went on tolerably well; he met his Client in the Street & told him so; yet added he Serjeant Whitaker doubts I find whether there will be speedy Issue—Tell him replies the Colonel that I am big now.—. Thraliana I May 28 47: Baretti [...] had also a Knowledge of the solemn Language and the gay; could be sublime with Johnson, or Black Guard with the Groom . Thraliana i Dec. 224: Dr Armstrong saw a very pretty Girl tumble down in her haste—so picked her up with bless me Madam! I thought Heaven and Earth were come together. Thraliana i Aug.-Sept. 115: One, who keeps a great Inn in Smithfield, took the poor Creature home to her for a few Days, & when She had recover’d her Strength a little, permitted her to do Charring Work as it is called. Thraliana i Aug.-Sept. 150: Gwynn the Architect was telling a Story—Damn my Soul says Gwynn & stopt; somebody interrupted him & sayd pry'thee tell thy Story without swearing—I wull says Gwynn, and so Damn my Soul—as I said before—. Thraliana I May 28 43: I confess I did take an Aversion to the Creature, & secretly resolved his Stay should not be prolonged by my Intreaties, whenever his Greatness chose to take huff & be gone. Thraliana i Aug.-Sept. 147: [T]heir only Son six Years old & near a Natural. Thraliana i Aug.-Sept. 153: Mr Murphy was ingaged in a Periodical Paper called I think the Grays Inn Journal [...] & said he must go to Town to publish his Sheet for the Day. Thraliana i Aug.-Sept. 145: Burney says that smoaking a Man by way of Contempt, comes from se mocquer French & I believe it does. Thraliana i Dec. 198: Women's Minds are commonly like their Shapes, either screwed up to ridiculous Smallness, or else loosed out—to a Squab, in their own emphatical phrase. Thraliana 1 June 62: Gentleman was teizing Fitzherbert with Cant how much he loved his Son—who lived a hundred Miles off; how he longed to see his Son, & how sorry he was he could not see his Son and such Stuff. Thraliana i Dec. 193: [I]n November 1769 a female Servant in Our house was suspected of murdering her Bastard; the same Day Baretti was taken up for killing a Man in the Streets. Thraliana i Aug.-Sept. 127: [O]ne of the first showy Houses they built was a Tavern for the Reception of the Officers—on which was written—in imitation of a favourite Tavern in London—Pontack. I soon could draw all the Customers from this House said my Father—how so? why by setting up one over against it and writing ’pon tick. Thraliana i June 80: Graham was got warm with Wine and Kindness. Thraliana i Dec. 346: [G]et me a Surgeon for sure as a Gun I have broke my best Leg. Thraliana i Mar.-Apr. 261: You got so beastly drunk that you were forced to be carried to Bed. Thraliana i Dec. 355: [H]is Tutour seeing him look pale one Day—Sir said he you seem quite Ill of late, I fear you are Clap’d; No Sir but I am Pox’d replied the Lad:. Thraliana i Dec. 356: Peggy Pitches is fallen in Love with a Creature called by People in Contempt The It—as his figure & Dress are so Equivocal many Folks take him for a Woman. What will not a Wench fall in Love with? Thraliana i Dec. 356: Mr Thrale is fallen in Love really & seriously with Sophy Streatfield—but there is no wonder in that: She is very pretty, very gentle, soft & insinuating [. . . .] A man must not be a Man but an It to resist such artillery. Thraliana i Apr.-May 316: To Streatham [...] we first return'd, kissed our Kids; left them all as we left them before. Thraliana i Mar.-Apr. 264: [A]t nine o'Clock we went to her Lodgings—She was too near meaning too penurious, to have a House of Her own. Thraliana i Apr.-May 334: [He] had strong Connections in the East Indies, was Director of the Company, Chairman of the Committee & what not! Thraliana i Mar.-Apr. 247: There came out a Copy of Arabick Verses on the old King's Death at Oxford;—presently by the same hand came out a copy of Phœnician Verses on the new Kings Accession or Marriage I forget which: Poh! Poh! says old Bates, I believe ’tis only the same Stuff turned bottom upwards. Thraliana i Mar.-Apr. 569: The old Woman who shews Sir Francis Drake's House shewed his Sword & Pistols used in the days of Elizabeth—Pooh Pooh says Munsey, these are nothing without the proper Illustrations: You ought to say this is the Sword with which Sir Francis Drake cut the Line; and this the Pistol with wch he shot the Gulf. Thraliana i Apr.-May 306: [He] declared his intention of coming to London & giving me away a Favour not to be refused: The false Parson Thelwall too pretended to rejoyce, begged he might tye the Knot as he call’d it. Thraliana i Mar.-Apr. 272: Mr Thrale twitted her with bathing at that End of Brightelmston where the Gentlemen bathed. Thraliana i Mar. 24 375: What says I should we call our Paper? Oh the Flasher to be sure says She—we have a Hack Phrase here at Streatham of call’g ev’ry thing Flash which we want other folks to call Wit. (con. 1777) Thraliana i Dec. 7 415: [O]ne day in the first Week of April 1777 [. . .] I remember Boswell dining here: we talked, we rattled, we flashed, we made extempore Verses, we did so much that at last Mr Boswell said why Mrs Thrale (says he) you are in most riotous spirits to-day—So I am reply'd I gaily. Thraliana i Mar. 1 371: We are not Friends, but Barretti [sic] is a Man of great & valuable Powers, Friend or Foe; & like the Highwaymen one must be true to the Gang. Thraliana i Apr. 17 379: Such a Eulogium as Johnson—who is an host—pronounc'd upon me here one day—Mercy on Me! what noble what generous praise!—I sate and cryed almost at the hearing it.