 | 1791 - 542 σελίδες
...not refrain from expreffing himfelf concerning that Nobleman with pointed freedom : " This man (faid he) I thought had been a Lord among wits ; but I find, fc« is only a wit among Lords !" And when his letters to his natural Ion were publilhed, he obferved,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 σελίδες
...Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with pointed freedom: 'This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among...only a wit among Lords*!' And when his Letters to his humour ; but by no means reply in the same way ; which only shows that you are hurt, and publishes... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 σελίδες
...Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with pointed freedom : ' This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among...only a wit among Lords'!' And when his Letters to his humour; but by no means reply in the same way ; which only shows that you are hurt, and publishes the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 σελίδες
...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, \ find, he is only a wit among Lords !" And when his Letters to his natural son were published, he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 σελίδες
...Chesterfield, did not refrainr from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with pointed freedom : " This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among...of a whore, and the manners of a dancing-master." In 1736, he resumed his scheme of giving an edition of (shakspeare with notes. He issued proposals... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 σελίδες
...envy, want, the Patron, and the jail : and speaking of him to his friends, " This man," would he say, " I thought had been a Lord among wits, but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords !" Whatever severity there may be in this observation, the opinion which he pronounced upon the Letters... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 σελίδες
...envy, want, the Patron, and the jail : and speaking of him to his friends, " This man," would he say, " I thought had been a Lord among wits, but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords !" Whatever severity there may be in this observation, the opinion which he pronounced upon the Letters... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 σελίδες
...want, the -Pad-on, and the jail : and speaking of him to his friends, " This man,'' would he say, " I thought had been a Lord among wits, but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords !" Whatever severity there may be in this observation, the opinion which he pronounced upon the Letters... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 σελίδες
...patron, 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,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 σελίδες
...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 snn were published, he observed, that " they teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancingmaster."*... | |
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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... 
