 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pages
...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 pages
...remarkably ready. Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with...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 pages
...remarkably ready. Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with...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 pages
...remarkably ready. Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with...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 - 384 pages
...remarkably ready. Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with...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 pages
...remarkably ready. Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with...of a whore, and the manners of a dancing-master." ' 1 That collection of letters cannot be vindicated from the serious charge, of encouraging, in some... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 394 pages
...having now explicitly avowed his opinion, of Lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressinghimself concerning that nobleman with pointed freedom : This...of a whore, and the manners of a dancing-master." ' 1 That collection of letters cannot be vindicated from the serious charge, of encouraging, in some... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 398 pages
...Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with pointed free-- dom : This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among...of a whore, and the manners of a dancing-master." ' . 1 That collection of letters cannot be vindicated from the serious charge, of encouraging, in some... | |
 | 1821 - 372 pages
...remarkably ready. Johnson havmg now explicitly avowed his opinion of lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with...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 - 1822 - 514 pages
...This, as Dr. Adams well observed, was one of those happy turns for which he was so remarkably ready. wits ; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords !...of a whore, and the manners of a dancing-master." ' The character of a " respectable Hottentot," in Lord Chesterfield's Letters, has been generally understood... | |
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This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords! 
