...Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with pointed freedom : " , as it brought him great fame and profit at the time,...extraordinary vigour both of thought and expression. manner of a dancing master."* The character of a " respectable Hottentot," in Lord Chesterfield's Letters,...

...patroD, but publicly expressed his opinion of him with pointed severity. " This man," he used to say, " I thought, had been a lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among lords." When the " Letters to his Son " appeared, many years afterwards, * he observed, with more justice,...

...HUMPHREY (1911-78). US Democratic politician, vice president. Speech. 6 Jan 1967. Buffalo, New York. 7 They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master. SAMUEL JOHNSON (1 709-84). English author, lexicographer. Quoted in: James Boswell,...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...form in 1774. Chesterfield cannot now be wholly separated from Johnson's condemnation of the Letters ('they teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master'74) and from Boswell's qualified concurrence with his judgment ('[t]hat collection of...