 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 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... | |
 | Walter Rowlands - 1900 - 380 pages
...world what he knew, for the present, and had ' 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, —... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 724 pages
...the world what he knew for the present, and had " 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 —... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pages
...any body.' Johnson said, he thought he had already done his part as a writer. ' I should have thought 04 H. Frowde" Boswell James" James Boswell , Pn occas — Johnson observed to me, upon this, that ' No man could have paid a handsomer compliment ; and it... | |
 | Walter Swain Hinchman, Francis Barton Gummere - 1908 - 608 pages
...it are well known. Johnson said 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 remarked to his friends that this was " decisive," and needed no reply. " When the king had... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852
...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 a handsomer compliment ; and it... | |
 | John Dennis - 1910 - 126 pages
...writing anything, and on his replying that he had 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 when asked if he had replied,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 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 was... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 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 was... | |
 | 1911 - 490 pages
...compliment : — 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." .... When asked .... whether he made any reply to this high compliment, he answered, " No, Sir. When... | |
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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. 
