 | Virgil McClure Harris - 1911 - 496 pages
...that I did not mind what he said or wrote, and that I had done with him." And, he added, "This man, I thought had been a lord among wits, but I find, he is only a wit among lords." The letter follows : "To THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD "February 7, 1755. "My LORD,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with a 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 of... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 pages
...refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with a 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 of... | |
 | Francis Cotterell Hodgson - 1913 - 464 pages
...with scorn Chesterfield's very complimentary notice of the Dictionary, saying, " I once thought he had been a lord among wits : but, I find, he is only a wit among lords." But Johnson's first and unprejudiced judgment was much the truer. Some of Chesterfield's essays in... | |
 | John Franklin Genung, Charles Lane Hanson - 1915 - 424 pages
...set off character against character, mood against mood, scene against scene. 1. I thought this man had been a lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among lords. 2. We are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. 3. " Better to reign... | |
 | Edwin Lillie Miller - 1920 - 134 pages
...rivers wide. — MILTON. For we that live to please must please to live. — SAMUEL JOHNSON. This man, I thought, had been a lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among lords. — SAMUEL JOHNSON. A climax is a kind of double or triple antithesis. In Greek, climax means "ladder."... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1917 - 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... | |
 | Richard Lanning Sandwick - 1920 - 204 pages
...and preserving parallel expression to make the contrast more apparent. Example: I thought this man had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among lords. In this sentence I find parallels / thought; and a wit among lords parallels a lord among wits. Here... | |
 | James Boswell - 1923 - 372 pages
...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... | |
 | Alfred Edward Newton - 1923 - 174 pages
...it; till I am solitary and cannot impart it; till I am known and do not want it. I once thought him a Lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among Lords. The chief glory of a nation is its people, and to them I shall dedicate my work. Mr. BOSWELL. Mr. BOSWELL.... | |
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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. 
