OF DOCTOR BURNEY, ARRANGED FROM HIS OWN MANUSCRIPTS, FROM FAMILY PAPERS, AND BY HIS DAUGHTER, MADAME D'ARBLAY. "O could my feeble powers thy virtues trace, 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. A MAR 1899 LIBRARY. Mary Cegood fund: LONDON: BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, 45-1956 2173 2.02.2 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'sstreet; 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. |