Hester Thrale's writings
Hester Lynch Thrale 1781 by Sir Joshua Reynolds
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- Forrester; or the old Hunter's Petition for Life - verses written 1758.
- To a Lady on April Fool Day - verses written 1758.
- Lambert’s Illness - verses written 1758.
- Irregular Ode on the English poets - verses written New Year's Day 1759.
- Fall of the Great Ash Tree in Offley Park in the Year 1760 - verses probably written in 1760 or 1761.
- Offley Park - verses written 1761.
- Song on his Majesty's Nuptials - verses written in 1761 to celebrate the marriage of King George 3rd.
- Ode on the Blessings of Peace - verses written in 1762 for an intended stage production.
- Ode to a Robin Redbreast - verses written December 1763.
- Harrow on the Hill - verses written to Henry Thrale whilst Hester stayed at Harrow on the Hill in 1764.
- Three warnings - quotation. Published 1766, date of writing unknown to Thrale.com .
- A Fable to Miss Thrale - verses written 17 February 1767.
- Dr. Samuel Johnson - epigram written 1767.
- Political Alphabet - verses published on 4 August 1769 in the Public Advertiser.
- Hester Thrale's account of Henry and Queeney Thrale 's narrow escape from serious injury during a coaching accident on 27 September 1775.
- That sting has none - verses written in January 1776.
- Hagley - verses written some time before 1777.
- Causes and connections of Dreams - verses written May 1777.
- Hester and Queeney’s early verses (aged thirteen years) - verses transcribed 1 June 1777.
- Dr Burney's Gold Pen - upon presenting Hester with a Gold Pen, Dr Burney and Hester both wrote these verses. October 1777.
- Second Morn of May - verses written for her Henry Thrale in December 1777.
- A comparison of ancient and modern musick - verses recorded in January 1778.
- Bach-y-Graig wood - verses written March 1778.
- Rickmansworth Fishing - verses recorded in Thraliana between March and April 1778.
- Untitled verses for Herbert Lawrence - verses written August 1778.
- Who is to keep America? - written Novamber 1778.
- L'Abbé Larignan's sonnet translated - verses translated into English in December 1778.
- A Tale for the Times - verses recorded in December 1778.
- Imagination’s Search after Happiness - verses written in December 1778.
- Life and death quotation - date of writing unknown to Thrale.com .
- The benefits of bathing - written 10 February 1779.
- Who shall keep our Colonies? - verses published on 16 March 1779.
- Youth - verses written 1 May 1779.
- The Two Signs - verses published on 7 July 1779 in the Public Advertiser.
- Quatrain de Pybrac - verses written July 1779.
- Dear Mr Woodfall - verses published on 20 January 1780 in the Public Advertiser.
- Nævia - verses written February to March 1780.
- Greenway’s Grotto - verses written on 28 June 1780.
- Thrale Library portraits - Hester's verses about each of her friends whose portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds hang in the library of their Streatham home - verses recorded on 10 January 1781.
- A pair of verses with Fanny Burney - verses recorded in Thraliana on 1 February 1781.
- Verses written in Spanish - verses written on 26 September 1781.
- Torna pure al carobene - verses recorded in Thraliana on 30 October 1781.
- Pacchierotti - verses recorded in Thraliana on 2 January 1782.
- Translation of Povoleri’s sonnet - verses recorded in Thraliana on 21 January 1782.
- Lady with an English Watch - verses recorded in Thraliana on 21 January 1782.
- Sonetto dal Povoleri. alla Sigra Thrale - Italian verses recorded in Thraliana on 1 February 1782.
- North American Death Song - verses recorded in Thraliana on 18 April 1782.
- Looking Glass - verses recorded in Thraliana on 18 April 1782.
- An evening with Molly Aston - verses recorded in Thraliana on 5 July 1782.
- Hester Thrale writes of her Dilemma, whether to marry Gabriel Piozzi, 20 September 1782.
- Lady Gideon's Ball - verses written 1 December 1782.
- Dover - verses written 9 May 1783.
- Piozzi’s absence - verses written 8 June 1783.
- Sweet-smiling Spring - verses written 14 August 1783.
- Religious verses - written 19 November 1783.
- To my distant lover fly - verses written 13 January 1784.
- The Rose Diamond Ring - verses written 6 February 1784.
- Piozzi's return to Calais - verses written 10 June 1784.
- Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson - biography written in 1785 and first published March 1786, by Cadell of London.
- Thoughts and verses on witnessing the eruption of Mount Vesuvius - written February 1786.
- An Ode to society - written 27 June 1786.
- A beard - verses written 21 May 1787.
- Calais and Dover - verses written 21 May 1787.
- The Jessamine and Bay Tree - verses written 2 August 1787.
- Viewing the Moon through Herschel's telescope - written September 1787.
- Epilogue to Manuel - verses written 11 October 1787.
- The Book of Genesis in verse - verses written 1 May 1788.
- Piozzi’s absence - verses written 8 July 1788.
- Prologue after Sarah Siddon’s illness - verses written 11 October 1787.
- Travel’s Epilogue - verses written 20 November 1788.
- Thoughts on the year 1800 and 2000 - written 1 May 1789.
- The French - verses written 19 January 1790.
- To the Author of the Essay on Old Maids - verses written 3 January 1791.
- New Year's Eve 1794 - verses written 2 January 1794.
- The Chapter of King-killers - verses written 1 September 1794.
- Old Denbigh Castle - verses written October to November 1794.
- Wandring Gypsies - verses written October to November 1794.
- A gallows make to hang ’em - verses written November 1794.
- My Dear Flo - verses written 1 September 1797.
- The French Count - verses written 3 June 1798.
- Egypt - verses written 25 July 1801.
- Retrospection - book written 1801.
- The Piozzi’s 19th wedding anniversary - verses written 25 July 1803.
- The sundial and weeping willow - verses written 23 August 1803.
- The French revolution - Hester’s thoughts about the ongoing revolution.
- 63rd birthday celebrations - Hester’s account written 27 January 1804.
- Tremeirchion village church repaired - verses written January / February 1804.
- Napoleon’s threatened invasion - February and May 1804.
- Friends and Enemies - verses written 17 June 1804.
- Miss Adam’s epitaph - written 25 June 1804.
- Verses in imitation of Percy’s old ballads - verses written 18 August 1804.
- Invitation to the ladies - verses written 23 September 1804.
- House of smoke - Rondeau verses written 15 November 1804.
- Son & Heir - Rondeau verses written 15 November 1804.
- Pens - verses written 30 July 1805.
- Death of the Earl of Jersey - verses written 30 July 1805.
- Charade - verses written 11 May 1806.
- Time will make Love pass away - verses written 11 May 1806.
- The Invisible Girl - verses written 11 May 1806.
- The Dean of Derry - verses written May 1806.
- Busy people - quotation.
- Women - quotation.
- Address to the Females of Great Britain entitled Old England to Her Daughters.
