 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1898 - 592 páginas
...have ever homely wits." The Two Gentlemen of Verona. In BoswelFs Johnson : "This man (Chesterfield) I thought had been a lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among lords." John Selden says : " No man is the wiser for his learning — wit and wisdom are born with a man."... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 páginas
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 páginas
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 páginas
...refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with pointed freedom : " This man," said he, " eat fame and profit at the time, it must proportionably slide out of the publi ! " And when his Letters to his natural son were published, he observed that " they teach the morals... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1900 - 588 páginas
...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 ! ' ' 731 то 1200 AD РВОМ THE " HlSTOEY OF THE MOHAMMEDAN DYNASTIES IN SPAIN," BY THE HISTORIAN... | |
 | 1900 - 674 páginas
...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 moralg of a harlot and the manners of a... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1902 - 810 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 páginas
...(Boswell).1 Vol. i. Chap. rii. 1743. Wretched un-idea'd girls. Chap.x. ns2, This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a lord among wits ; but I find he is only a wit among lords.8 Vol. ii. Chap. i. 1754. 1 From the London edition, 10 volumes, 1835. Dr. Johnson, it is said,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 724 páginas
...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 294 páginas
...dignified but he was insolent," and that "his manner was exquisitely elegant." And again: "This man I thought had been a lord among wits ; but I find he is only- a wit among Lords." Johnson always maintained that the " respectable Hottentot " was not meant for him. " Sir," said he,... | |
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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. 
