 | Edmund Gosse - 1924 - 440 pàgines
...they teach the morals of a •, and the manners of a dancing-master," and of their author, " This man, I thought, had been a lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among lords." It was on the 7th of February 1735 that Johnson addressed to Chesterfield his terrible and celebrated... | |
 | Rudolph Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - 1923 - 392 pàgines
...his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that novel man with pointed freedom: "This man (said he) I thought...published, he observed, that "they teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing-master." The characters of a "respectable Hottentot," in Lord Chesterfield's... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1180 pàgines
...Dr. Adams well observed, was one of those happy turns for which he was so .remarkably ready. Johnson y Co. [J7SS] The Dictionary, with a Grammar and History of the English Language, being now at length published,... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1178 pàgines
...Dr. Adams well observed, was one of those happy turns for which he was so remarkably ready. Johnson &?}mV X ~ 1`a ^ O \ wit among Lords!" [ I 7SS] The Dictionary, with a Grarn-^ mar and History of the English__l^n^ gunge,... | |
 | Rudolf Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - 1923 - 392 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,...not refrain from expressing himself concerning that novel man with pointed freedom: "This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find,... | |
 | Arthur Stanley Turberville - 1926 - 602 pàgines
...cynical Chesterfield, and their dislike was mutual. ' I thought ', once said Johnson, 'that this man had been a Lord among wits ; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.' To Chesterfield, the great authority on deportment, Johnson must have appeared a barbarian. The Doctor... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 pàgines
...patroD, 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,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pàgines
...Chesterfield's Letters to His Son. Of Chesterfield — Johnson's erratic patron — he remarked, "This man I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords." Corruption 1 O Rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night, In the howling storm,... | |
 | Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., Robert C. Leitz, Jesse S. Crisler - 2001 - 644 pàgines
...from that of Johnson, who expressed his opinion of him freely. "I thought," he said, "that this man had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among lords"; and of Chesterfield's famous letters he said that they taught the morals of a harlot and the manners of... | |
 | Neela Subramaniam - 256 pàgines
...At last I've found out that I am ..." 12. To whom was Dr.Johnson referring when he said: "This man I thought had been a lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among lords"? 13. Who 1. "slept under the dresser", 2. "lived in the odium of having discovered sodium"? 14. Whose... | |
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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... 
