 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.  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page xlixby Samuel Johnson - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1851 - 402 pages
...shifting from subject to subject according to his wont; "during the whole interview," says Boswell, " Johnson talked to his majesty with profound respect, but still in his open, manly manner, with a sonorous voice, and never in that subdued tone which is commonly used at... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 400 pages
...shifting from subject to subject according to his wont ; " during the whole interview," says Boswell, " Johnson talked to his majesty with profound respect, but still in his open, manly manner, with a sonorous voice, and never in that subdued tone which is commonly used at... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 572 pages
...interview, to use the description 1767. given to Boswell by the librarian, Johnson talked to his JEt. 39. majesty with profound respect, but still in his firm...commonly used at the levee and in the drawing-room. And how, at the end of it, the flattered sage protested that the manners of the bucolic young sovereign,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Natural history - 1854 - 614 pages
...shifting from subject to subject according to his wont. " During the whole interview," says Boswell, " Johnson talked to his majesty with profound respect, but still in his open, manly manner, with a sonorous voice, and never in that subdued tone which is commonly used at... | |
 | John Forster - 1855 - 528 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 nattered sage protested that the manners of the bucolic young sovereign,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1858 - 482 pages
...circumstance, which Johnson himself had forgot. His Majesty expressed a desire to have the literary biography of this country ably executed, and proposed to Dr. Johnson to undertake it.1 Johnson signified his readiness to comply with his Majesty's wishes. During the whole of this... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1860 - 960 pages
...through a microscope j will be able to detect him." ' His Majesty expressed a desire to have the literary ll of carnage which provokes this, let the animals...there is a general abhorrence in animals at the sign " I now," said Johnson to his friends, when relating what had passed, " began to consider that I was... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1860 - 496 pages
...circumstance, which Johnson himself had forgot. His Majesty expressed a desire to have the literary biography of this country ably executed, and proposed to Dr. Johnson to undertake it. 1 Johnson signified his readiness to comply with his Majesty's wishes. During the whole of this interview,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1864 - 464 pages
...shifting from subject to subject according to his wont. "During the whole interview," says Boswell, "Johnson talked to his Majesty with profound respect, but still in his open, manly manner, with a sonorous voice, and never in that subdued tone which is commonly used at... | |
 | Washington Irving - Authors, English - 1870 - 444 pages
...Boswell, " Johnson talked to his Majesty with profound respect, but still in his open, manly mariner, with a sonorous voice, and never in that subdued tone...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... | |
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