 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1805 - 238 pages
...highly pleased with his majesty's courteousness, and afterwards observed to a friend — ' Sir, his manners are those of as fine a gentleman, as we may suppose Louis XIV. or Charles II.' In 1770, he published a political pamphlet, entitled The False Alarm, intended... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...observed to Mr. Langton, " Sir, his 1767. will; but he is the finest gentleman I have ever seen." 58.' manners are those of as fine a gentleman as we may suppose Lewis the Fourteenth or Charles the Second." At Sir Joshua Reynolds's, where a circle of Johnson's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pages
...he is the finest gentleman I have ever seen." And he afterwards observed to Mr. Langton, " Sir, his manners are those of as fine a gentleman as we may suppose Lewis the Fourteenth or Charles the Second." At Sir Joshua Reynolds's, where a circle of Johnson's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Historical fiction - 1809 - 210 pages
...was highly pleased with his majesty's conrteousness, and afterwards observed to a friend—" Sir, his manners are those of as fine a gentleman, as we may suppose Louis XIV. or Charles II." In 1770, he published a political pamphlet, entitled The False Alarm, intended... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 524 pages
...he is the finest gentleman I have ever seen.' And he afterwards observed to Mr. Langton, ' Sir, his manners are those of as fine a gentleman as we may suppose Lewis the Fourteenth or Charles the Second/" « On the institution of the Royal Academy of Arts, Johnson... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 520 pages
...is the finest gentleman I have ever seen.' And he afterwards observed to Mr. Langton, • Sir, his manners are those of as fine a gentleman as we may suppose Lewis the Fourteenth or Charles tbe Second.'" * On the institution of the Royal Academy of Arts, Johnson... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1809 - 530 pages
...he is the finest gentleman I have ever seen.' And he afterwards observed to Mr. Langton, ' Sir, his manners are those of as fine a gentleman as we may suppose Lewis the Fourteenth or Charles the Second.'" * On the institution of the Royal Academy of Arts, Johnson... | |
 | English literature - 1814 - 642 pages
...finest gentleman I have ever seen." And he also observed at another time to Mr. Ijiyton, " Sir, his manners are those of as fine a gentleman as we may suppose Louis the Fourteenth or Charles t,lus Second." INFIDELITY. At the time when the works of Hump, and other writers of the same stamp,... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - Great Britain - 1815 - 576 pages
...is the finest Gentleman " I have ever seen.' And he afterwards ob" served to Mr. Langton, ' Sir, his manners " are those of as fine a Gentleman, as we...suppose Louis the Fourteenth, or Charles " the Second.' " Intlependant of the effect necessarily produced on Johnson's mind, by so unexpected and flattering... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1816 - 154 pages
...highly pleased with his majesty's courteousness, and afterwards observed to a friend — <• Sir, his manners are those of as fine a gentleman, as we may suppose Louis XIV or Charles II.' In 1770, he published a political pamphlet, entitled The False Alarm, intended... | |
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Sir, they may talk of the king as they will ; but he is the finest gentleman I have ever seen." And he afterwards observed to Mr. Langton, " Sir, his manners are those of as fine a gentleman as we may suppose Lewis the fourteenth or Charles the second. 
