 | James Boswell - 1831 - 600 pages
...remarkably ready. . 4Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with...published, he observed, that " they teach the morals of a prostitute, and the manners of a dancingmaster2." 1 [This, like all the rest of the affair, seems discoloured... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 pages
...remarkably ready. Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with...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 pages
...remarkably ready. Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, dkl not refrain highest pitch, but must have dazzled me so much, that my memory could not preserve the 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 pages
...remarkably ready. Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with...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, John Wilson Croker - 1848 - 1798 pages
...remarkably ready. Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with...teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master." 3 The character of a "respectable Hottentot," in Lord Chesterfield's Letters, has... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 pages
...remarkably ready. Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with...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 by prejudice. Lord... | |
 | John Nichols - 1848 - 908 pages
...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... | |
 | William Keddie - 1854 - 404 pages
...remarkably ready. Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with...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 pages
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1858 - 482 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 This, like all the rest of the affair, seems discoloured by prejudice. Lord Chesterfield made no... | |
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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! 
