 | Austin Dobson - English essays - 1902 - 384 pages
...sides. ' His Most Sacred Majesty' (as Boswell styles him in his pamphlet) endeavoured to urge the doctor 'to rely on his own stores as an original writer, and to continue his labours.' 'I do not think you borrow much from anybody,' he was polite enough to say. To which Johnson made answer... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - Artists - 1906 - 374 pages
...more knowledge, to which the King replied : " I do not think you borrow much from anybody." At that Johnson said he thought he had already done his part as a writer. " I should have thought so too if you had not written so well," commented His Majesty, much to the delight of his hearer, who afterwards... | |
 | Beckles Willson - Great Britain - 1907 - 756 pages
...read to acquire more knowledge. " I do not think," remarked the King, " you borrow much from anybody." Johnson said he thought he had already done his part...as a writer. " I should have thought so too," said his Majesty, "if you had not written so well." The King having observed that he supposed he must have... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 670 pages
...well told the world what he knew, and must now read to acquire more knowledge. The King, as it should seem with a view to urge him to rely on his own stores...thought he had already done his part as a writer. " 1 should have thought so too, (said the King,) if you had not written so well." — Johnson observed... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...well told the world what he knew, and must now read to acquire more knowledge. The king, as it should seem with a view to urge him to rely on his own stores as an original writer, and to continue his labors, then said, "I do not think you borrow much from anybody." Johnson said he thought he had already... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...well told the world what he knew, and must now read to acquire more knowledge. The king, as it should seem with a view to urge him to rely on his own stores as an original writer, and to continue his labors, then said, "I do not think you borrow much from anybody." Johnson said he thought he had already... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...well told the world what he knew, and must now read to acquire more knowledge. The king, as it should seem with a view to urge him to rely on his own stores as an original writer, and to continue his labors, then said, "I do not think you borrow much from anybody." Johnson said he thought he had already... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 pages
...well told the world what he knew, and must now read to acquire more knowledge. The king, as it should seem with a view to urge him to rely on his own stores as an original writer, and to continue his labors, then said, "I do not think you borrow much from anybody." Johnson said he thought he had already... | |
 | James Boswell - Readers - 1916 - 370 pages
...well told the world what he knew, and must now read to acquire more knowledge. The King, as it should seem with a view to urge him to rely on his own stores as an original writer, and to continue his labors, then said: "I do not think you borrow much from any body." Johnson said, he thought he had... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - Literature - 1917 - 712 pages
...well told the world what he knew, and must now read to acquire more knowledge. The King, as it should seem with a view to urge him to rely on his own stores as an original writer, and to continue his labors, then said, (( I do not think you borrow much from anybody. * Johnson said he thought he had... | |
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He answered, he was not, for he had pretty well told the world what he knew, and must now read to acquire more knowledge. The King, as it should seem with a view to urge him to rely on his own stores as an original writer, and to continue his labours,... 
