 | James Fieser - 2005 - 500 pages
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 | Harry Benford - 1999 - 280 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | Nina Coltart - 2000 - 200 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 2001 - 838 pages
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 | 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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This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords! 
