...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...

...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...

...! 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...

...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. —...

...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,...

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...concerned, ever after spoke his mind very freely about the courtly dissembler. " This man," said he, "I thought had been a lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among lords ! " That is magnificent. And when the nobleman's letters to his natural son were published, Johnson...

...the best king of good fellows. — Shakespeare, King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 2. This man (Chesterfield) I thought had been a lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among lords. — Boswell's Johnson, Vol. ii. /. 13. An. 1754. A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits. — Pope,...

...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 Lords ! " And when his Letters to his natural son were published, he observed, that " they teach the morals...

...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 KOBERTSON.J * John Hall-Stevenson was a relative of Laurence Sterne, and the «' Eugenius" of...