 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 562 pages
...good deal of enquiry, procured a copy in London, and sent it to Johnson, who told Sir Joshua Reynolds that he was going to bed when it came, but was so much pleased with it, that he sat up till he had read it through, and found in it such an air of truth, that he could not doubt of its authenticity... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pages
...good deal of enquiry, procured a copy '"n London, and sent it to Johnson, who told Sir Joshua Reynolds that he was going to bed when it came, but was so much pleased with it, that he sat up till he had read it through, and found in it such an air of truth, that he could not doubt of its authenticity... | |
 | Joseph Strutt - English fiction - 1808 - 252 pages
...jcood deal of inquiry, procured a copy in London, and sent it to Johnson, who told Sir Joshua Reynolds, that he was going to bed when it came, but was so...much pleased with it, that he sat up till he read it thiough,aiid found in it such an air of truth, that he could not doubt its authenticity ; adding, with... | |
 | Arthur Aikin - 1809 - 832 pages
...good deal of enquiry procured a copy in London, and sent it to Johnson,, who told Sir Joshua Reynolds that he was going to bed when it came, but was so much pk-ased with it, that he sat up till he had read it through, and found in it such an air of 'truth,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 536 pages
...good deal of enquiry, procured a copy in London, and bent it to Johnson, who told Sir Joshua Reynolds that he was going to bed when it came, but was so much pleased with it, that be sat up till he had read it through, and found in it such an air of truth, that he could not doubt... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 380 pages
...good deal of inquiry, procured a copy in London, and sent it to Johnson, who told Sir Joshua Reynolds that he was going to bed when it came, but was so much pleased with it, that he sat up till he had read it through, and found in it such an air of truth, that he could not doubt of its authenticity... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 506 pages
...good deal of enquiry, procured a copy in London, and sent it to Johnson, who told Sir Joshua Reynolds that he was going to bed when it came, but was so much pleased with it, that he sat up till he had read it through, and found in it such an air of truth, that he could not doubt of its authenticity... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1826 - 444 pages
...good deal of enquiry, procured a copy in London, and sent it to Johnson, who told sir Johua Reynolds that he was going to bed when it came, but was so much pleased with it, that he sat up till he had read it through, and found in it such an air of truth, that he could not doubt of its authenticity... | |
 | Walter Wilson - 1830 - 718 pages
...and sent it to Johnson, who told Sir Joshua Reynolds, that he was going to bed when it came, but he was so much pleased with it, that he sat up till he had read it through) and found in it such an air of ti uth, that he could not doubt of its authenticity... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1831 - 570 pages
...deal of inquiry, procured a copy in London ~, and sent it to Johnson, who told Sir Joshua Reynolds that he was going to bed when it came, but was so much pleased with it, that he sat up till he had read it through, and found in it such an air of truth, that he could not doubt of its authenticity... | |
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Johnson said, he had never heard of the book. Lord Eliot had it at Port Eliot ; but, after a good deal of enquiry, procured a copy in London, and sent it to Johnson, who told Sir Joshua Reynolds that he was going to bed when it came, but was so much pleased... 
