 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 348 pages
...proposed to Dr. Johnson to undertake it. (') Johnson signified his readiness to comply with his Majesty's wishes. During the whole of this interview, Johnson...the drawing-room. After the King withdrew, Johnson showed himself highly pleased with his Majesty's conversation, and gracious behaviour. He said to Mr.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 346 pages
...to Dr. Johnson to undertake it . ( ' ) Johnson signified his readiness to comply with his Majesty's wishes. During the whole of this interview, Johnson...the drawing-room. After the King withdrew, Johnson showed himself highly pleased with his Majesty's conversation, and gracious behaviour. He said to Mr.... | |
 | James Boswell - Biography - 1846 - 602 pages
...proposed to Dr. Johnson to undertake it '. Johnson signified his readiness to comply with his majesty's wishes. During the whole of this interview, Johnson...the drawing-room. After the king withdrew, Johnson showed himself highly pleased with his majesty's 1 [This perhaps may hare given Dr. Johnson the first... | |
 | Henry Francis Cary - Poets, English - 1846 - 462 pages
...proposed to Dr. Johnson to undertake it. Johnson signified his readiness to comply with his Majesty's wishes. During the whole of this interview, Johnson...used at the levee and in the drawing-room. After the Kin<r withdrew, Johnson shewed himself highly pleased with his Majesty's conversation and gracious... | |
 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 pages
...syllable). How, during the whole of the interview, to use the description given to Boswell by the librarian, Johnson talked to his majesty with ; profound respect,...commonly used at the levee and in the drawingroom. And how, at the end of it, the flattered sage protested that the manners of the bucolic young sovereign,... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 pages
...syllable). How, during the whole of the interview, to use the description given to Boswell by the librarian, Johnson talked to his majesty with profound respect,...commonly used at the levee and in the drawingroom. And how, at the end of it, the flattered sage protested that the manners of the bucolic young sovereign,... | |
 | John Forster - Authors, English - 1848 - 1294 pages
...syllable). How, during the whole of the interview, to use the description given to Boswell by the librarian, Johnson talked to his majesty with profound respect,...commonly used at the levee and in the drawingroom. And how, at the end of it, the flattered sage protested that the manners of the bucolic young sovereign,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 1798 pages
...proposed to Dr. Johnson to undertake it. Johnson signified his readiness to comply with his Majesty's wishes. During the whole of this interview, Johnson...Majesty with profound respect, but still in his firm mauly manner, with a sonorous voice, and never in that subdued tone which is commonly used at the levee... | |
 | Washington Irving - Biography & Autobiography - 1849 - 406 pages
...interview," N2 says Boswell, " Johnson talked to his majesty with profound respect, but still in his open, manly manner, with a sonorous voice, and never in...commonly used at the levee and in the drawing-room. ' I found his majesty wished I should talk,' said he, ' and I made it my business to talk. I find it... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1849 - 634 pages
...have shown a more nice and dignified sense of true politeness, than Johnson did in this instance. ' During the whole of this interview, Johnson talked...profound respect, but still in his firm manly manner. After the King withdrew, Johnson showed himself highly pleased with his Majesty's conversation and... | |
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During the whole of this interview, Johnson talked to his majesty with profound respect, but still in his firm manly manner, with a sonorous voice, and never in that subdued tone which is commonly used at the levee and in the drawing-room. 
