 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 páginas
...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 - 374 páginas
...taken Chesterfield's 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 páginas
...Chesterfield's 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 páginas
...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 dancing-master.... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 346 páginas
...Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with pointed freedom: "This man," said he, " I thought had been a lord among...morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancingmaster." — Boswell. Of a certain player he remarked that his conversation usually threatened and announced... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 348 páginas
...Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with pointed freedom: " This man," said he, "I thought had been a lord among...among lords !" And when his Letters to his natural sou were published, he observed that "they teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancingmaster."—-Boswell... | |
 | James Boswell - 1880 - 488 páginas
...Chesterfield, did not 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 I" And when his Letters to his natural son were published, he observed, that " they teach the morals... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1880 - 362 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
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Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, did not 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... 
