 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pages
...the drawing-room. After the King withdrew, Johnson showed himself highly pleased with his Majesty's &< ( Y J ݤ k1= L 5 Ƞ H K | b =;Eb j V_P u 3 6̓...S` - q - RA e }" j 9 i } ó~¼ .] }f d- nc C d YG 0 scen.' And he afterwards observed to Mr. Langton, ' Sir, his manners are those of as fine a gentleman... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pages
...the drawing-room. After the King withdrew, Johnson showed himself highly pleased with his Majesty's conversation and gracious behaviour. He said to Mr....'Sir, they may talk of the King as they will; but he U the finest gentleman I have ever seen.' And he afterwards observed to Mr. Langton, ' Sir, his manners... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pages
...the drawing-room. After the King withdrew, Johnson showed himself highly pleased with his Majesty's conversation and gracious behaviour. He said to Mr....suppose Louis the Fourteenth or Charles the Second.' " Retailing the incidents of this memorable interview at Sir Joshua Reynolds's one evening, Johnson... | |
 | Alexander Main - Literary Criticism - 1874 - 482 pages
...the drawing-room. After the King withdrew, Johnson showed himself highly pleased with his Majesty's conversation and gracious behaviour. He said to Mr....suppose Louis the Fourteenth or Charles the Second.' " Retailing the incidents of this memorable interview at Sir Joshua Reynolds's one evening, Johnson... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pages
...the drawing-room. After the King withdrew, Johnson shewed himself highly pleased with his Majesty's conversation and gracious behaviour. He said to Mr....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... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - London (England) - 1877 - 432 pages
...gentleman I have ever seen ; ' and later, ' still harping on my daughter,' he said at Langton's : ' Sir, his manners are those of as fine a gentleman as we may suppose Louis XIV. or Charles II.' Assuredly, the fine-gentleman manners of either 340 JOHNSON'S PENSION OPPOSED.... | |
 | Sir Leslie Stephen - 1878 - 226 pages
...civilities with my sovereign." Johnson was not tho less delighted. " Sir," he said to the librarian, " they may talk of the King as they will, but he is tho finest gentleman I have ever seen." And he afterwards compared his manners to those of Louis XIV.,... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 346 pages
...showed himself highly * George the Third. pleased with his Majesty's conversation and gracious behavior. He said to Mr. Barnard, " Sir, they may talk of the...is the finest gentleman I have ever seen." And he afterward observed to Mr. Langton, " Sir, his manners are those of as fine a gentleman as we may suppose... | |
 | 1879 - 348 pages
...may talk of the king as they will; but he is the finest gentleman I have ever seen." And he afterward observed to Mr. Langton," Sir, his manners are those...we may suppose Louis the Fourteenth or Charles the Second."—Boswell. A stranger to Johnson's character and temper would have thought that the study... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1880 - 488 pages
...himself highly pleased with his Majesty's conversation, and gracious behaviour. He said to MiBarnard, " Sir, they may talk of the King as they will ; but...finest gentleman I have ever seen." And he afterwards ol>served to Mr. Langton, " Sir, his manners are those of as fine u gentleman as we may suppose Lewis... | |
| |
Sir, they may talk of the King as they will ; but he is the finest gentleman I have ever seen. 
