 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 620 σελίδες
...letter, dated in the month of February, 1755. " To the Right Hon. the Earl of CHESTERFIELD. "•My LORD, "•1 have been lately informed, by the proprietor...very little accustomed to favours from the great, 1 know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. "When, upon pome slight encouragement,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 σελίδες
...wounded pride and surly independence, the composition is inimitable : — February 7, 1755. My Lord — I pires ; for now the leaf Incessant rustles When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 σελίδες
...informed by the proprietor of the ' World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary' is recosimended When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 σελίδες
...fear or hope from censure or from praise. Letter to Lard Chesterfield. February 7, 1755. My Lord— I have been lately informed by the proprietor of the...well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 σελίδες
...world has so eagerly desired to see. TO THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. 11 February 7. 1755. " Mr LORD, — I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of '...well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 σελίδες
...expression of wounded pride and surly independence, is inimitable :— February 7, 1755. MY LORD—I have been lately informed by the proprietor of the...well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 σελίδες
...of wounded pride and surly ce, the composition is inimitable : — February 7, 1755. My Lord — I ou my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind....Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil тегу little accuHtomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 σελίδες
...at once ? How is sun parsed ? 11. "To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield. " MY LORD, " I t of the organ ; Polish, that of the guitar. The Old Slavonian, honor which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 σελίδες
...the proprietor of 'The World/ that two papers in which my Dictionary is recommended to the publiek were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished...well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When upon some slight encouragement I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, lite the rest... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 σελίδες
...words) was found to be only a wit among lords." It was as follows: " MY LORD, 7th February 1755. " I have been lately informed by the proprietor of " The...well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest... | |
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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... 
