| Katherine Thomson - 1860 - 376 pages
...happy turns, ' was defensive pride.' ' This man,' he afterwards said, referring to Chesterfield, ' I thought had been a lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among lords.' In revenge, Chesterfield in his Letters depicted Johnson, it is said, in the character of the 'respectable... | |
| Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - Great Britain - 1861 - 520 pages
...his happy turns, " was defensive pride." " This man," he afterward said, referring to Chesterfield, " I thought had been a lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among lords." In revenge, Chesterfield in his Letters depicted Johnson. it is said, in the character of the " respectable... | |
| James Whiteside - Authors, English - 1862 - 100 pages
...to describe Dr. Johnson under the character of a respectable Hottentot. But Johnson paid him off " This man," said he, '* I thought had been a lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among lords." How he dealt with infidel books and their editors, may be learned from a single anecdote, which shows... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...the best king, thou shalt find the best king of good fellows. King Henrg V. Act v. Se. 2. This man I thought had been a lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among lords. SAMUEL JOHNSON. A wit with dunces, aud a dunce with wits. POPE. Hunciad. Book iv. Line 92. Although... | |
| Charles Knight - Booksellers and bookselling - 1865 - 366 pages
...patronised by the Peer, of whom it was afterwards said by the author of the dictionary, " This man. I thought had been a lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among, lords." In connexion with Mr. Andrew Millar, Messrs. Knapton, Messrs. Longman, and Mr. Hitch, Dodsley became... | |
| James Whiteside - Great Britain - 1868 - 498 pages
...meant to describe Dr. Johnson under the character of a respectable Hottentot. But Johnson paid him off. "This man," said he, " I thought had been a lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among lords." How he dealt with infidel books and their editors, may be learned from a single anecdote, which shows... | |
| Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...! All sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore. On the Loss of the Royal George. This man I thought had been a lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among lords. — SAMUEL JOHNSON. A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits. POPE. Dunciad. Booh iv. Line 92. Although... | |
| William Clark Russell - Authors, English - 1871 - 550 pages
...good was given to him, and he was too humble ever to refuse the gift. — Horace Walpole. This man, I thought, had been a lord among wits ; but I find he is only a wit among lords. — Johnson. (His " Letters") teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing-master. —... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1872 - 864 pages
...good fellows. — Shakespeare, King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 2. This man (Chesterfield) I thought had beena lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among lords. — Boswell's Johnson, Vol. \\. p. 13. An. 1754. A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits. — Pope,... | |
| James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pages
...having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with pointed freedom : '...natural son were published, he observed that ' they tench the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing-master.'2 The character of a ' respectable... | |
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