...Johnson instantly) was defentive pride." This, as Dr. Adams well observed, was one of those happy turns 3 for which he was so remarkably ready. Johnson having...explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, dkl not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with pointed freedom : " This man...

...Johnson instantly) was defensive pride." This, as Dr. Adams well observed, was one of those happy turns 3 for which he was so remarkably ready. Johnson having...I thought had been a lord among wits: but, I find, lie is only a wit among lords!" And when his Letters to his natural son were published, he obst- rv1...

...instantly) was defensive pride." This, as Dr. Adams well observed, was one of those happy turns (>) for which he was so remarkably ready. Johnson having...published, he observed, that " they teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master." (8) (1) This, like all the rest of the affair, seems discoloured...

...Johnson instantly) was defensive pride." This, as Dr. Adams well observed, was one of those happy turns - for which he was so remarkably ready. Johnson having...published, he observed, that " they teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master." 3 The character of a "respectable Hottentot," in Lord...

...which Miss Seward handsomely, and I believe sincerely, styles ' interesting memoirs :' " ' This man I thought had been a lord among wits ; but I find he is only a wit among lords.' " It would therefore be better if Miss Seward would not boast of all her communications concerning...

...Johnson : " But mine was defensive pride." This, as Dr. Adams well observed, was one of those happy turns for which he was so remarkably ready. Johnson having...letters to his natural son were published, he observed, " They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing-master." In 1776, Boswell showed him,...

...this antithesis is Dr. Johnson's sarcastic application of it to Lord Chesterfield : — " This man, I thought, had been a lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among lords." The oft-quoted line in Cowper's " Task," — " England, with all thy faults, I love thee still," is...

...instantly; was defensive. pride." This, as Dr. Adams well observed, was one of those happy turns 1 for which he was so remarkably ready. Johnson having...published, he observed, that " they teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing-master." ' 1 This, like all the rest of the affair, seems discoloured...

...Johnson instantly; was defensive pride." This, as Dr. Adams well observed, was one of those happy turns' for which he was so remarkably ready. Johnson having...published, he observed, that " they teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing-master." * 1 This, like all the rest of the affair, seems discoloured...

...instantly) was defettsive pride." This, as Dr. Adams well observed, was one of those happy turns ! it might have been. Who could have imagined that the...would be so prompt in quoting ííanprrtuii, who, I whore, and the manners of a dancing master." 3 The character of a "respectable Hottentot," in Lord...