 | Austin Dobson - English essays - 1902 - 384 pages
...to say. To which Johnson made answer (one can imagine his measured and deferential sonority) that ' he thought he had already done his part as a writer.' ' I should have thought so too,' rejoined the King, ' if you had not written so well.' The little compliment was worthy of the Roi-Soleil,... | |
 | Washington Irving - Authors, Irish - 1903 - 446 pages
...whether he was writing anything. His reply was, that he thought he had already done his part as -<. 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; and... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - Artists - 1906 - 372 pages
...so well," commented His Majesty, much to the delight of his hearer, who afterwards used to say : " No man could have paid a handsomer compliment, and it was fit for a king to pay. It was decisive " ; and on being asked if he made any reply to this high eulogy, his answer was : " No, sir. When the... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - Artists - 1906 - 374 pages
...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... | |
 | Walter Swain Hinchman, Francis Barton Gummere - Authors, English - 1908 - 610 pages
...doctor's own account. The monarch's compliment and Johnson's comment on it are well known. Johnson said he " had already done his part as a writer. ' I should...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 said it,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1910 - 602 pages
...writer, and to 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...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.... | |
 | John Dennis - 1910 - 126 pages
...talked to by his sovereign." The King asked if he was writing anything, and on his replying that he 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 when asked if he had replied,... | |
 | Astronomy - 1911 - 490 pages
...with George III. in the toyal library, when the King paid him a truly royal compliment : — Johnson said he thought he had already done his part as a...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... | |
 | Astronomy - 1911 - 488 pages
...with George III. in the royal library, when the King paid him a truly royal compliment : — Johnson said he thought he had already done his part as a...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. 
