(There is actually a quote from Johnson to the effect that Fritz is the sole real monarch of Europe in Boswell's Life, which was given during G3's reign, so...)
I remembered the quote, but not the source. Johnson, cool!
What about Catherine, inquiring minds want to know? Johnson was apparently quite excited when she decided to propagate one of his works in Russia:
Gentlemen, I must tell you a very great thing. The Empress of Russia has ordered the Rambler to be translated into the Russian language; so I shall be read on the banks of the Wolga. Horace boasts that his fame would extend as far as the banks of the Rhône; now the Wolga is farther from me than the Rhône was from Horace.
ETA: he appointed George Keith - i.e. a man who'd done his best to ensure the Stuarts, not the Hannovers, would sit on the British throne - as Prussian Ambassador to GB.
I've quoted this before, but now seems a good time to remind everyone that when Keith was dying,
He summoned the British envoy, Elliot, on 23 May 1778: "I called you, because I find pleasure in emitting the last sighs of a Jacobite to a minister of King George."
As I said when I first quoted this, I can see why he and Fritz were friends for so long. :D
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Re: Andrew Mitchell: The Return
Date: 2020-10-13 01:03 am (UTC)I remembered the quote, but not the source. Johnson, cool!
What about Catherine, inquiring minds want to know? Johnson was apparently quite excited when she decided to propagate one of his works in Russia:
Gentlemen, I must tell you a very great thing. The Empress of Russia has ordered the Rambler to be translated into the Russian language; so I shall be read on the banks of the Wolga. Horace boasts that his fame would extend as far as the banks of the Rhône; now the Wolga is farther from me than the Rhône was from Horace.
ETA:
he appointed George Keith - i.e. a man who'd done his best to ensure the Stuarts, not the Hannovers, would sit on the British throne - as Prussian Ambassador to GB.
I've quoted this before, but now seems a good time to remind everyone that when Keith was dying,
He summoned the British envoy, Elliot, on 23 May 1778: "I called you, because I find pleasure in emitting the last sighs of a Jacobite to a minister of King George."
As I said when I first quoted this, I can see why he and Fritz were friends for so long. :D
Peter Keith: ARGGRHHMBLLWTF!!!!!
That's Fritz for you, Peter.