Note 367 — THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. (continued 2)
Reading edition
In this he was unlike the King, who, writes Horace Walpole,' expecting only an attack on Chambers, bought it to tease, and began reading it to, him; but, finding it more bitter on himself, flung it down on the floor in a passion, and would read no more.' Journal of the Reign of George III, i. 187.