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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! "
The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ... - Page 47
by Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 394 pages
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The Life of Samuel Johnson

Robert Anderson - 696 pages
...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,...
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The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...HUMPHREY (1911-78). US Democratic politician, vice president. Speech. 6 Jan 1967. Buffalo, New York. 7 They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master. SAMUEL JOHNSON (1 709-84). English author, lexicographer. Quoted in: James Boswell,...
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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...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,...
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The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 pages
...maketh the man'. The letters were much ridiculed, notably by the critic Dr Samuel Johnson, who asserted that they 'teach the morals of a whore and the manners of a dancing-master'. But they remain a unique insight into mideighteenth-century upper-class attitudes and life-style. The...
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A Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr

Arnold Rogow - 1999 - 374 pages
...first published 1929), xi. Root characterizes Samuel Johnson's much quoted comment that the Letters "teach the morals of a whore and the manners of a dancing-master" as "grossly untrue." Johnson may have been retaliating for Chesterfield's neglect of his Dictionary...
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Literature as Communication: The Foundations of Mediating Criticism

Roger D. Sell - 2000 - 372 pages
...simulates the gentleness of the dove" (Stanhope 1817 [1749]). This earned for the letters Johnson's remark, "They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master". They clearly bore out Johnson's experience of the noble lord's own politeness, which...
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Cambridge Street-Names: Their Origins and Associations

Ronald Gray, Derek Stubbings - 2000 - 184 pages
...live. There is an essay on these by Virginia Woolf, who admired him, though Dr Johnson said the letters 'teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancingmaster'. William WARREN (1683-1745), whose name appears in the same Trinity Hall cluster, was a Fellow of that...
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Charles W. Chesnutt: Essays and Speeches: Essays and Speeches

Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., Robert C. Leitz, Jesse S. Crisler - 2001 - 644 pages
...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...
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Jane Austen and the Morality of Conversation

Bharat Tandon - 2003 - 320 pages
...form in 1774. Chesterfield cannot now be wholly separated from Johnson's condemnation of the Letters ('they teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master'74) and from Boswell's qualified concurrence with his judgment ('[t]hat collection of...
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Spectacular Book Of Quiz ?

Neela Subramaniam - 256 pages
...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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