 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - 374 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...!"— Boswell. Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with...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 ページ
...a fifth r— Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with...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 ページ
...remarkably ready. Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 742 ページ
...remarkably ready. Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with...teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master." l The character of a " respectable Hottentot," in Lord Ches1 That collection of Letters... | |
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This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords! 
