human
Sir, here is the King.
gpt
I hope, whether we have more books or not than they have at Cambridge, we shall make as good use of them as they do. Being asked whether All-Souls or Christ Church library was the largest, he answered,
human
All-Souls library is the largest we have, except the Bodleian.
gpt
Ay (said the King),
human
I do not think you borrow much from anybody.
gpt
I should have thought so too (said the King),
human
Johnson observed to me, upon this, that
gpt
No man could have paid a handsomer compliment; and it was fit for a king to pay. It was decisive. When asked by another friend, at Sir Joshua Reynolds's, whether he made any reply to this high compliment, he answered,
human
No, sir. When the King had said it, it was to be so. It was not for me to bandy civilities with my Sovereign.