 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 pages
...heavier specimens of Johnson's style. 350 LETTER TO LOKD CHESTEBF1ELD. February 7th, 1755. MY LORD, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an hononr which,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...perhaps, unequalled in English literature. TO TI1E RJ.OHT HONORABLE THE BAIL OF CHESTERFIELD. Mr LORD : I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honor, which,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...Samuel Johnson. 1709-1784. (Manual, p. 359.) 212. LETTER TO THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. My Lord, — I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of...' World,' that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...ocrhaps, unequalled in English literature. TO THE RIOIIT HONORABLE THE EA IL OF CHESTERFIELD. Mi LORD : I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honor, which,... | |
 | Gems - 1866 - 168 pages
....... Pope, Milton, j^LK^Vj. 146 147 -^^>^ OfiPS^ JV> "^%^^l THE AUTHOR TO HIS PATRON. , Y LORD, — I have been lately informed by the proprietor of the World that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour which,... | |
 | James Philemon Holcombe - 1866 - 548 pages
...XII.— OX THE PUBLICATION OF HIS DICTIONARY. Dr. Johnson to Lord ChaterfiM* February, 1755. Mr LOKD : I have been lately informed by the proprietor of the..." World," that two papers, in which my dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honor which,... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 pages
...it thuiild be put into the hanfh of every young gentleman." LETTER TO LORD CHESTERFIELD. My Lord: 1. I have been lately informed by the proprietor of the...World," that two papers, in which my " Dictionary" is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished is an honor, which,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...time be ended,1 though not completed.1 2. LETTER TO LORD CHESTERFIELD. February 7, 1755. MY LORD, — I have been lately informed by the proprietor of "...The World," that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour which,... | |
 | Thomas Crampton - 1868 - 136 pages
...wounded pride and surly independence, is without a parallel in our language. MY LORD, I have been latety informed by the proprietor of the World, that two papers, in which my ''Dictionary" is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which,... | |
 | Class-book - 1869 - 344 pages
...such a transgression. Samuel Johnson: 1709—1784. Letter to the Earl of Chesterfield. MY LORD — I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of the World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour,... | |
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I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours... 
