 | Antony Jay - 1996 - 536 pages
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 | Alexander Monro - 1996 - 266 pages
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 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Arthur Sherbo - 1997 - 276 pages
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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! 
