 | 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.... | |
 | Sir Leslie Stephen - 1878 - 226 pàgines
...Street. Johnson spoke his mind of his rival without reserve. " 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 the Letters he said more keenly that they taught the morals of a harlot and the manners of a dancing-master.... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 346 pàgines
...rid of such a companion, exclaimed, "I heartily wish, sir, that I were a fifth !"— Boswell. 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 dancingmaster." — Boswell. Of a certain player he remarked that his conversation... | |
 | 1879 - 348 pàgines
...to get rid of such a companion, exclaimed, "I heartily wish, sir, that I were a fifth r— Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield,...among lords !" And when his Letters to his natural sou were published, he observed that "they teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancingmaster."—-Boswell... | |
 | James Boswell - 1880 - 488 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 wits : but I find he is only a wit among lords I" And when his Letters to his natural son were published, he observed, that " they teach the morals... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1880 - 362 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 EOBERTSON." It is remarkable, by the way, that Mr. Boswell had been reporting some of these... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - 1882 - 638 pàgines
...Johnson's opinion of Lord Chesterfield was subsequently expressed with great freedom. "This man," he said, "I thought had been a lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among lords." Of Chesterfield's "Letters to his Son," Johnson declared that " they teach the morals of a harlot,... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pàgines
...faculties. Boswell's Life of Johnson. An. 1743. Wretched un-idea'd girls. An. 1752. This man (Chesterfield), I thought, had been a lord among wits ; but I find he is only a wit among lords.1 An. 1754. 1 If he be not fellow with the best king, thou shall find the be«t king of good... | |
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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... 
