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Dr. Gower is mentioned by Dr. King (Anec., p. 174) as one of the three persons he had known 'who spoke English with that elegance and propriety, that if all they said had been immediately committed to writing, any judge of the language would have pronounced it an excellent and very beautiful style.'

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Mrs. Piozzi records (Anec.p. 298) that 'Dr. Johnson used to say “that the size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth;” and his own was never contemptible.'

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[827] Mr. Seward (Anec, ii. 466) gives the following version of these lines:

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'Mr. Murphy,' she writes (Anec.p. 205), 'always said he was incomparable at buffoonery.'

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[999] Mrs. Piozzi (Anec.p. 173) says that Johnson spoke of Browne as 'of all conversers the most delightful with whom he ever was in company.'

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W.en the Pretender was in London in 1750, 'he came one evening,' writes Dr.W. King (Anec.p. 199) 'to my lodgings, and drank tea with me; my servant, after he was gone, said to me, that he thought my new visitor very like Prince Charles.

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Perhaps Scott was thinking of a passage in Mrs. Piozzi's Anec.p. 149, where she writes that he said: 'A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of any thing than he does of his dinner. '

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Mrs. Piozzi's account (Anec.p. 114) is evidently so inaccurate that it does not deserve attention; she herself admits that Beauclerk was truthful.

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According to Mrs. Piozzi (Anec.p. 302), 'whoever once heard him repeat an ode of Horace would be long before they could endure to hear it repeated by another.'

Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

Mrs. Piozzi (Anec.p. 149) records that 'Johnson often said,

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