 | Gems - 1866 - 168 pages
....... Pope, Milton, j^LK^Vj. 146 147 -^^>^ OfiPS^ JV> "^%^^l THE AUTHOR TO HIS PATRON. , Y LORD, — I have been lately informed by the proprietor of the...papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour which, being very little... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 pages
...it thuiild be put into the hanfh of every young gentleman." LETTER TO LORD CHESTERFIELD. My Lord: 1. I have been lately informed by the proprietor of the...papers, in which my " Dictionary" is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished is an honor, which, being very little... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...time be ended,1 though not completed.1 2. LETTER TO LORD CHESTERFIELD. February 7, 1755. MY LORD, — I have been lately informed by the proprietor of "...papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour which, being very little... | |
 | Thomas Crampton - 1868 - 136 pages
...wounded pride and surly independence, is without a parallel in our language. MY LORD, I have been latety informed by the proprietor of the World, that two...papers, in which my ''Dictionary" is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which, being very little... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1868 - 550 pages
...the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which, being very littla accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive or in what terras to acknowledge.... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - 1869 - 306 pages
...literary censure ever written. He says to the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield — "Mr LORD: I have been lately informed by the proprietor of The...papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honor, which, being very little... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...from memory many years afterwards to Boswell. 152. LETTEB TO THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. My Lord, — I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of...papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To bo so distinguished is an honour, which, being very little... | |
 | Class-book - 1869 - 344 pages
...such a transgression. Samuel Johnson: 1709—1784. Letter to the Earl of Chesterfield. MY LORD — I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of...papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little... | |
 | Louis Le Brun, Henri van Laun - 1869 - 290 pages
...other points of his character. W. SCOTT. 1771-1832. SAMUEL JOHNSON TO LORD CHESTERFIELD. MY LORD, — I have been lately informed by the proprietor of the World, that two papers,1 in which my " Dictionary " is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To... | |
 | George Seton - 1870 - 278 pages
...your, etc., SAM'L JOHNSON. THE SAME TO THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. February "Jth, 1755. MY LORD, — I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of...papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were "written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which, being very little... | |
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I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours... 
