 | James Boswell - 1889 - 504 pages
...continue his labours, then said, " I do not think you borrow much from any body." Johnson said, he thought he had already done his part as a writer. " I should...well." Johnson observed to me, upon this, that " No man letter, in these words : — " I have the King's commands to assure you, Sir, how sensible his Majesty... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 454 pages
...continue his labours, then said, " I do not think you borrow much from any body." Johnson said, he thought he had already done his part as a writer. " I should...well." Johnson observed to me, upon this, that " No man letter, in these words : — " I have the King's commands to assure you, Sir, how sensible his Majesty... | |
 | James Boswell - English literature - 1890 - 568 pages
...continue his labours, then said, " I do not think you borrow much from anybody." Johnson said, he thought he had already done his part as a writer. " I should...Johnson observed to me, upon this, that "no man could luve paid a handsomer compliment ; and it was fit for a king to pay. It was decisive." When asked by... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 660 pages
...continue his labours, then said, " I do not think you borrow much from any body." Johnson said, he thought he had already done his part as a writer. " I should...decisive." When asked by another friend, at Sir Joshua Reynolds's, whether he made any reply to this high compliment, he answered, " No, sir. When the King... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 670 pages
...continue his labours, then said, " I do not think you borrow much from any body." Johnson said, he thought he had already done his part as a writer. " I should...decisive." When asked by another friend, at Sir Joshua Reynolds's, whether he made any reply to this high compliment, he answered, " No, sir. When the King... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1900 - 928 pages
...continue his labours, then said, " I do not think you borrow much from anybody." Johnson said, he thought he had already done his part as a writer. " I should...decisive." When asked by another friend, at Sir Joshua Reynolds's, whether he made any reply to this high compliment, he answered, " No, Sir. When the king... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 pages
...continue his labours, then said, " I do not think you borrow much from any body." Johnson said, he thought he had already done his part as a writer. " I should...observed to me, upon this, that " No man could have paid Majesty is of your attention in communicating the minute of the conversation previous to its publication.... | |
 | 1900 - 674 pages
...Johnson excused himself by saying that he had told the world what he knew for the present, and had " done his part as a writer." " I should have thought...said the King, " if you had not written so well." " No man," said Johnson, "could have paid a higher compliment ; and it was fit for a King to pay—... | |
 | Walter Rowlands - Authors - 1900 - 380 pages
...said the king, 'if you had not written so well.' 'No man,' said Johnson, 'could have paid a higher compliment ; and it was fit for a king to pay, — it was decisive.' " But the approval of a king moves us little compared with reading of the kindly charities of " Surly... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Poets, English - 1902 - 724 pages
...Johnson excused himself by saying that he had told the world what he knew for the present, and had " done his part as a writer." " I should have thought...said the King, " if you had not written so well." " No man," said Johnson, " could have paid a higher compliment ; and it was fit for a King to pay —... | |
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Johnson said he thought he had already done his part as a writer. "I should have thought so too, (said the King,) if you had not written so well. 
