 | Dover, Folkestone, and Deal guide - 1875 - 188 pages
...are but children of a larger growth." i22. Lord Chesterfield born. 1694 (dicd in 1773).—" This man I thought had been a lord among wits ; but I find he is only a wit among lords."— Johnson. Rev. C. Simeon bora, 1759 - dicd 1836 4">r 4s 45r 59e 48r 54s 52r 72820 75821 84022 10 59... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...Boswell's Life of Johnson. AH. 1743. Wretched un-idea'd girls. Kid. An. 1752. This man (Chesterfield), I thought, had been a lord among wits ; but I find he is only a wit among lords.1 Boswell's Life of Johnson. An. 1754. Sir, he (Bolingbroke) was a scoundrel and a coward : a... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - 376 pages
...measure, and he ever afterwards spoke of him in terms of the greatest contempt. ' This man,' said he, ' I thought had been a lord among wits ; but I find he is only a wit among lords.' He even changed, as Boswell tells us, a word in one of the couplets of the Vanity of Human Wishes.... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - 386 pages
...measure, and he ever afterwards spoke of him in terms of the greatest contempt. ' rhis man,' said he, ' I thought had been a lord among wits ; but I find he is only a wit among lordsj He even changed, as Boswell tells us, a word in one of the couplets of the Vanity of Human Wishes.... | |
 | Sir Leslie Stephen - 1878 - 226 pages
...Street. Johnson spoke his mind of his rival without reserve. " 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 the Letters he said more keenly that they taught the morals of a harlot and the manners of a... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 346 pages
...refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with pointed freedom: "This man," said he, " I thought had been a lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among lords !" And when his Letters to his natural son were published, he observed that " they teach the morals... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1880 - 362 pages
...Johnson, after being acquainted with Lord Chesterfield, said : ' I see now what this man is. I thought he had been a lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among lords.' — DOCTOR EOBERTSON." It is remarkable, by the way, that Mr. Boswell had been reporting some of these... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - 1882 - 638 pages
...Johnson's opinion of Lord Chesterfield was subsequently expressed with great freedom. "This man," he said, "I thought had been a lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among lords." Of Chesterfield's "Letters to his Son," Johnson declared that " they teach the morals of a harlot,... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...faculties. Boswell's Life of Johnson. An. 1743. Wretched un-idea'd girls. An. 1752. This man (Chesterfield), I thought, had been a lord among wits ; but I find he is only a wit among lords.1 An. 1754. 1 If he be not fellow with the best king, thou shall find the be«t king of good... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1884 - 288 pages
...advancement as " a fall up-stairs." Not a Peerless Wit. Dr. Johnson said of Lord Chesterfield, " This man I thought had been a lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among lords." A Cat may look at a King. Talking of the royal family being seen often at Ranelagh, Lady Townshend... | |
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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. 
