 | John Stoughton - 1864 - 302 pages
...which he received, is very amusing. He said he thought he had written too much. "I should have thought so too," said the king, " if you had not written so well." "No man," said the flattered author, " could have paid a handsomer compliment ; it was fit for a king... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...183. Johnson said, he thought he had already (1767) done his part as a writer. " I should have thought so too," said the king, " if you had not written so well." Johnson observed to me, upon this, that " no man could have paid a handsomer compliment; and it was... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 pages
...anything. His reply was, that he thought he had nearly done his part as. a writer. " I should have thought so too," said the king, " if you had not written so well." "No man," said Johnson, at Sir Joshua Eeynolds', " could have made a handsomer compliment ; and it... | |
 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 482 pages
...anybody.' 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.' — Johnson observed to me, upon this, that ' no man could have paid a handsomer compliment ; and it... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pages
...any body." 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." — Johnson observed to me, upon this, that " No man could have paid Majesty is of your attention in... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - 1877 - 454 pages
...excusable.' When Johnson submitted that he himself had done his part as a writer, ' I should have thought so, too," said the king, 'if you had not written so well.' Johnson spoke of this to Boswell in these words : ' No man could have paid a handsomer compliment,... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - 386 pages
...anything. ' 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" Johnson observed to me upon this (writes Boswell) that "No man could have paid a handsomer compliment,... | |
 | 1880 - 556 pages
...world what lie knew for the present, and hud " done his part as a writer." " I should have thought so too," 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 —... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 952 pages
...thing. His reply was, that 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." — " No man," said Johnson, commenting on this speech, " could have made a handsomer compliment ;... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 966 pages
...thing. His reply was, that 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." — " No man," said Johnson, commenting on this speech, " could have made a handsomer compliment ;... | |
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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. 
