Thrale history
Hester Lynch SALUSBURY
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This Tale a Sibyl Nurse ared,
She softly stroked my youngling Head
And when the Tale was done;
Thus some are born my Son, She cries
With base Impediments to rise
And some are born with none.
But virtue can herself advance
To what the fav'rite fools of Chance
By Fortune seem'd designed;
Virtue can gain the odds of Fate
And from herself shake off the Weight
Upon th'unworthy Mind.
Verses: "Verses on Samuel Johnson"
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 1 February 1781.
The fourth manuscript volume of Thraliana has Bartolozzi's engraving of Johnson's head pasted inside its front cover, and two small disks of paper, pasted side by side on the first fly-leaf, minutely inscribed verses about Samuel Johnson, in the respective hands of Fanny Burney and Hester Thrale.
| Date | 1 Feb 1781 |
| Linked to | Thraliana by Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs. Thrale); Hester Lynch SALUSBURY |
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