Sales catalogue 634: Maggs Bros

Date:
1936
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/170
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 634: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    eS ES oe tae rc anne An Cee eae Therkelin (Grim Jonsson)—continued. hearted Council, which framed the destruction of Copenhagen, robbed our Navy, and involved in a common ruin all that was dear to a peacetul and innocent people. The Conflagration of Copenhagen, the cries of suckling babes torn from the bosoms of their mothers, murdered with Congreves fiery darts and bursting shells, the groans of mutilated widows and widowers; the tears of half burnt parents, mourn- ing their children butchered with wanton cruelty, will call down from heaven an unavoidable vengeance equally as awful. ee, ‘“‘T lost all | had by the savage bombardment of this City in 1807. ee My Library stored with choice and uncommon treasures drawn from Denmark, England, Germany and Sweden to the amount of 4500 volumes, besides numerous Manuscripts ; a large collection of Flemish. Italian and English pictures . . my whole household furniture to the value of more than 8000 English Crowns. All these things were gutted by fire, which our wanton enemies poured from. their baneful batteries over us in the night between the 3rd and 4th of September in the year 1807, when Brittons turned Wandals.’”’ Etc., etc. 8290 THRALE (MRS. H. L., AFTERWARDS MRS. ER MOZ7A ara 7A 1324), Friend of Dr. Johnson. | AUTOGRAPH MANUSERIPY BY MRS. PIOZZ) OF THE EPILOGUE WRITTEN BY HER FOR SKEFFINGTON’S PLAY,“ THE MYSTERIOUS BRIDE.’ 2. Dp. Abo. E1808). ALSO AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO MRS. PIOZZI PROM Stk LUMLEY ST. GEORGE SKEFFINGION,. THE PLAY- WRIGHT. 4 full pp., 4to. Devonshire Place, 16th May, 1808. Together, £10 10s Skeffington writes outlining his new play ‘‘ The Mysterious Bride ’’ and asks Mrs. Piozzi to write the Epilogue for it ; the original MS. of Epilogue, written by her accompanies. In his letter Skeffington says :— - . . My Play (which is serious) will come out either on the 3dlst of May, or on the Glorious first of June! It is entitled ‘ The Mysterious Bride.’ The piece turns chiefly on the events which arise from an ambitious courtier, who, to aggrandize his family passes his sister on the King instead of the Princess, who was designed for him. The persecuted lady, after enduring a variety of danger and humiliation, is ultimately united to the monarch ; and the degenerate characters are dismissed to shame and punishment. ‘““I wish the Epilogue to be as gay as possible, and at the same time so arranged that it may be given either to the actress who performs the real Princess, or to Mr, Elliston.” Etc., ete. oe The Epilogue by Mrs. Piozzi consists of some 46 lines. ‘“ Now, Gentlemen and Ladies, if you please, After these strange Mysterious Marriages ; To patronize a Frolic of my Scheming (Because this Idle Hand is always Dreaming) ; By way of something new and strange—we’ll try To make a matrimonial Lottery. Then they protest, Marriage is but a Lottery at best. So of the Sex, Sir Thomas More asserted. And [I’ve never heard the Axiom. controverted A Bag of Snakes containing one poor Rel But we have Grigs and Congers in our Wheel.’’ Ete.
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