 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 páginas
...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...papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an hononr which, being very little... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 550 páginas
...We subjoin it, in preference to heavier specimens of Johnson's style. February 7th, 1753. MY LORD, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 páginas
...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...papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honor, which, being very little... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1863 - 400 páginas
..."Dictionary" is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished l is an honour which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well 2 how to receive, or 3 in what terms to acknowledge. When, upon some slight encouragement, I first... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 páginas
...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 the...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 páginas
...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...papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honor, which, being very little... | |
 | James Philemon Holcombe - 1866 - 548 páginas
...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...papers, in which my dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honor which, being very little... | |
 | Gems - 1866 - 168 páginas
....... 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...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... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 páginas
...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...papers, in which my " Dictionary" is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished is an honor, which, being very little... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 páginas
...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...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... | |
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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... 
