 Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with pointed freedom: 'This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among...  The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Pàgina 253per James Boswell - 1831Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pàgines
...expressing himself concerning that nobleman with pointed frcedom : ' This man,' said he, 'I thought had bcen #W@ W S fYz 9 v8 Kn + 2 O31 ` \ L ; ~ ! ' I And when his Letters to his natural son were published, he observed that ' they teach the morals... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pàgines
...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."* The character of a " respectable Hottentot," in Lord... | |
 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 482 pàgines
...as Chesterfield was concerned, ever after spoke his mind very freely about the courtly dissembler. "This man," said he, " I thought had been a lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among lords ! " That is magnificent. And when the nobleman's letters to his natural son were published, Johnson... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pàgines
...as Chesterfield was concerned, ever after spoke his mind very freely about the courtly dissembler. " This man," said he, "I thought had been a lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among lords ! " That is magnificent. And when the nobleman's letters to his natural son were published, Johnson... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pàgines
...the best king of good fellows. — Shakespeare, King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 2. This man (Chesterfield) I thought had been a lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among lords. — Boswell's Johnson, Vol. ii. /. 13. An. 1754. A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits. — Pope,... | |
 | 1874 - 382 pàgines
...Johnson, after being acquainted with Lord Chesterfield, said, ' I see now what this man is. I thought he had been a lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among lords.'" DOCTOR KOBERTSON.J * John Hall-Stevenson was a relative of Laurence Sterne, and the «' Eugenius" of... | |
 | Dover, Folkestone, and Deal guide - 1875 - 188 pàgines
...are but children of a larger growth." i22. Lord Chesterfield born. 1694 (dicd in 1773).—" This man I thought had been a lord among wits ; but I find he is only a wit among lords."— Johnson. Rev. C. Simeon bora, 1759 - dicd 1836 4">r 4s 45r 59e 48r 54s 52r 72820 75821 84022 10 59... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pàgines
...Boswell's Life of Johnson. AH. 1743. Wretched un-idea'd girls. Kid. An. 1752. This man (Chesterfield), I thought, had been a lord among wits ; but I find he is only a wit among lords.1 Boswell's Life of Johnson. An. 1754. Sir, he (Bolingbroke) was a scoundrel and a coward : a... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - 374 pàgines
...taken Chesterfield's measure, and he ever afterwards spoke of him in terms of the greatest contempt. ' This man,' said he, ' I thought had been a lord among wits ; but I find he is only a wit among lords.' He even changed, as Boswell tells us, a word in one of the couplets of the Vanity of Human Wishes.... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - 386 pàgines
...Chesterfield's measure, and he ever afterwards spoke of him in terms of the greatest contempt. ' rhis man,' said he, ' I thought had been a lord among wits ; but I find he is only a wit among lordsj He even changed, as Boswell tells us, a word in one of the couplets of the Vanity of Human Wishes.... | |
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