| Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pàgines
...patron, but publicly expressed his opinion of him with pointed severity. " This man," he used to say, " I thought, had been a lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among lords." When the " Letters to his Son " appeared, many years afterwards, * he observed, with more justice,... | |
| James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pàgines
...Dr. Adams well observed, was one of those happy turns for which he was so remarkably ready. Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield,...among Lords !" And when his letters to his natural snn were published, he observed, that " they teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancingmaster."*... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pàgines
...Dr. Adams well observed, was one of those happy turns for which he was so remarkably ready. Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield,...only a wit among Lords !" And when his letters to hie natural son were published, he observed, that " they teach the morals of a whore, and the manners... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 372 pàgines
...Dr. Adams well observed, was one of those happy turn?, tor which he was so remarkably ready. Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of lord Chesterfield,...had been a lord among wits, but I find he is only a VOL. II. C wit among lords !" And when his letters to his natural son were published, he observed,... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 382 pàgines
...of those happy turns, for which he was so remarkably ready. Johnson having now explicitly avowedhis opinion of lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from...had been a lord among wits, but I find he is only a vOL. u. c wit among lords !" And when bis letters to his natural son were published, he observed, "... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 384 pàgines
...Dr. Adams well observed, was one of those happy turns, for which he was so remarkably ready. Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of lord Chesterfield,...said he, " I thought had been a lord among wits, but 1 find he is only a VOL. II. C wit among lords !" And when his letters to his' natural son were published,... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 388 pàgines
...Dr. Adams well observed, was one of those happy turns for which he was so remarkably ready. Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield,...published, he observed, that " they teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing-master." ' 1 That collection of letters cannot be vindicated from... | |
| 1821 - 372 pàgines
...Adams well observed, was one of those happy turn?, for which he was so remarkably ready. Johnson havmg now explicitly avowed his opinion of lord Chesterfield,...only a wit among lords !" And when his letters to iiis natural son were published, he observed, "thqr teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of*... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 398 pàgines
...Dr. Adams well observed, was one of those happy turns for which he was so remarkably ready. Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield,...expressing himself concerning that nobleman with pointed free-- dom : This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits ; but, I find, he is only a wit... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 394 pàgines
...Dr. Adams well observed, was one of those happyturns for which he was so remarkably ready. Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion, of Lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressinghimself concerning that nobleman with pointed freedom : This man (said he) I thought had... | |
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