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extant.Anecdote^ -pot hitherto relateds of Dr. Johnson.Though ill-qualified either by the habits of his life, or the inclinations of his mind, to compliment the ladies, some moments are known tohave arisen in which he soared above his natural impoliteness, and assumed the gallantry and good breeding of a professed admirer of the sex. Having one day clasped within both his hands the hand of Mrs. Piozzi, remarkable for its symmetry and its whiteness, he smiled, and pointing at it as she withdrew it, said, lt;( You have sometimes reproached me with the vanity of giving the preference to my own works ; is it not a full confutation of the charge to declare, that this is the finest work that ever came out rfmy hands.”
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London World Fashionable Advertiser
London, Middlesex, GB
Mon, Apr 09, 1787
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