| James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pages
...levee and in 154 the drawing-room. After the King withdrew, Johnson showed himself highly pleased with his Majesty's conversation and gracious behaviour....'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... | |
| James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pages
...Majesty's wishes. the drawing-room. After the King withdrew, Johnson showed himself highly pleased with his Majesty's conversation and gracious behaviour....said to Mr. Barnard, ' Sir, they may talk of the King ns they will; but he is the finest gentleman I have ever seen.' And he afterwards observed to Mr. Langten,... | |
| Alexander Main - Literary Criticism - 1874 - 486 pages
...levee and in the drawing-room. After the King withdrew, Johnson showed himself highly pleased with his Majesty's conversation and gracious behaviour....he afterwards observed to Mr. Langton, ' Sir, his manners are those of as fine a gentleman as we may suppose Louis the Fourteenth or Charles the Second.'... | |
| James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pages
...levee and in the drawing-room. After the King withdrew, Johnson shewed himself highly pleased with his Majesty's conversation and gracious behaviour....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."... | |
| ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pages
...levee and in the drawing-room. After the King withdrew, Johnson showed himself highly pleased with his Majesty's conversation and gracious behaviour....he afterwards observed to Mr. Langton, ' Sir, his manners are those of as fine a gentleman as we may suppose Louis the Fourteenth or Charles the Second.'... | |
| 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... | |
| Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 348 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... | |
| George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 616 pages
...speaking of this interview, the biographer writes : " He said to Mr. Barnard, the king's librarian, 'Sir, they may talk of the king as they will, but...gentleman I have ever seen.' And he afterwards observed to his friend Langton, ' Sir, his manners are those of as fine a gentleman as we may suppose Louis XIV.... | |
| Authors, English - 1880 - 556 pages
...civilities with my sovereign." Johnson was not the less delighted. " Sir," he said to the librarian, "they may talk of the King as they will, but he is...finest gentleman I have ever seen." And he afterwards compared his manners to those of Louis XIV., and his favourite, Charles II. (ioldsmith, says Boswell,... | |
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