 | James Boswell - English literature - 1890 - 568 pages
...having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself dancing master. "t The character of a "respectable Hottentot," in Lord Chesterfield's Letters, has... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - Great Britain - 1890 - 332 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 hi his Letters depicted Johnson, it is said, in the character of the 'respectable... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 462 pages
...they teach the morals of a , and the manners of a dancing-master," and of their author, " This man, I thought, had been a lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among lords." It was on the 7th of February 1735 that Johnson addressed to Chesterfield his terrible and celebrated... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 440 pages
...they teach the morals of a , and the manners of a dancing-master," and of their author, " This man, I thought, had been a lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among lords." It was on the 7th of February 1735 that Johnson addressed to Chesterfield his terrible and celebrated... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1891 - 412 pages
...(liaretti), iii. 155, n. 2; 'Sir, Mrs. Montagu does not make a trade of her wit,' iv. 317; 'This man, I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords,' i. 308; ' Wit is generally false reasoning ' (Wycherley), iii. 27, я. 2. WITHOUT. ' Without ands or... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - Authors, Scottish - 1891 - 338 pages
...book, which Miss Seward handsomely, and I believe sincerely styles, 'interesting memoirs.' 'This man I thought had been a Lord among wits ; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.' It would, therefore, be better if Miss Seward would not boast of all the communications concerning... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1892 - 480 pages
...wits." ' Original Letters, p. 204. BoswelPs version of Johnson's saying is different : — ' This man I thought had been a Lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among Lords.' Life, \. 266. The story of the present of .£100 is not supported by any other evidence and is very... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - English language - 1893 - 360 pages
...in larger ways, — in contrasted moods, characters, and scenes. EXAMPLES. — "I thought this man had been a lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among lords." — " Better to reign in hell (says Satan in Paradise Lost) than serve in heaven." When the contrast... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1894 - 688 pages
...morals of a harlot and the manners of a dancing-master. At another time he said, " I thought this man had been a lord among wits ; but I find he is only a wit among lords." After seven years of drudgery Johnson brought his work to a close. In hopes of having it dedicated... | |
 | Robert Anderson - College readers - 696 pages
...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,... | |
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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! 
