...envy, want, the Patron, and the jail : and speaking of him to his friends, " This man," would he say, " I thought had been a Lord among wits, but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords !" Whatever severity there may be in this observation, the opinion which he pronounced upon the Letters...

...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,...

...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."*...

...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...

...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,...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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*...