 | James Boswell - 1831 - 604 pàgines
...Dr. Adams well observed, was one of those happy turns l for which he was so remarkably ready. Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield,...teach the morals of a prostitute, and the manners of a dancingmaster V 1 [This, like all the rest of the affair, seems discoloured by prejudice. Lord Chesterfield... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 pàgines
...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 wits: but, I find, he is only a wit among lords !"( 2 ) And when his Letters to his natural son were published, he observed, that " they teach the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pàgines
...was so remarkably ready. Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, dkl not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with pointed freedom : " This man (said hej I thought had been a lord among wits: but, I find, he is only a wit among lords!" And when his... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pàgines
...Dr. Adams well observed, was one of those happy turns 3 for which he was so remarkably ready. Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield,...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 pàgines
...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." (8) (1) This, like all the rest of the affair, seems discoloured... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pàgines
...Dr. Adams well observed, was one of those happy turns - for which he was so remarkably ready. Johnson if he be whore, and the manners of a dancing master." 3 The character of a "respectable Hottentot," in Lord... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1848 - 906 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 pàgines
...amongst lords, or to characterise his celebrated letters, by saying of them, in the antithetical way, " that they teach the morals of a prostitute, " and the manners of a dancing-master." Such dogma recoil upon the utterer :—they forcibly hring to recollection his strictures... | |
 | William Keddie - 1854 - 400 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,...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,... | |
 | Henry Hegart Breen - 1857 - 342 pàgines
...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... | |
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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... 
