 | John Dennis - English literature - 1899 - 294 pages
...society of men of letters, and took his part among the wits of the age. ' I used,' he tells his son,' to think myself in company as much above me when I...as if I had been with all the princes in Europe.' As an essayist, although Chesterfield cannot compete with Addison or Steele, he is far from contemptible,... | |
 | 1900 - 484 pages
...consideration : but I mean with regard to their merit, and the light in which the world considers them. GOOD COMPANY as much above me, when I was with Mr. Addison...Pope, as if I had been with all the princes in Europe. What I mean by low company, which should by all means be avoided, is the company of those who, absolutely... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope - Conduct of life - 1901 - 514 pages
...some peculiar merit, or who excel in some particular and valuable art or science. For my own part, I used to think myself in company as much above me,...Pope, as if I had been with all the princes in Europe. What I mean by low company, which should by all means be avoided, is the company of those, who, absolutely... | |
 | Success - 1902 - 508 pages
...some peculiar merit, or who excel in some particular and valuable art or science. For my own part, I used to think myself in company as much above me,...Pope, as if I had been with all the princes in Europe. What I mean by low company, which should by all means be avoided, is the company of those who, absolutely... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1902 - 310 pages
...some peculiar merit, or who excel in some particular and valuable art or science. For my own part, I used to think myself in company as much above me, when I was with Mr. Addison and Mr. Pope,1 as if I had been with all the princes in Europe. What I mean by low company — which should... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - Great Britain - 1903 - 248 pages
...some peculiar merit, or who excel in some particular and valuable art or science. For my own part, I used to think myself in company as much above me,...as if I had been with all the princes in Europe." (Letter xcvi.) " AH general reflections, upon nations and societies, are the trite, threadbare jokes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1905 - 456 pages
...while he speaks of the grief of the step-son, says nothing of the widow. Works, Preface, p. 13. 1 1 used to think myself in company as much above me when...as if I had been with all the Princes in Europe." CHESTERFIELD, Letters to his Son, i. 280. APPENDIX R (PAGE 115) These words are not in The Old Whig,... | |
 | John Dennis - English literature - 1906 - 286 pages
...society of men of letters, and took his part among the wits of the age. ' I used,' he tells his son, ' to think myself in company as much above me when I...as if I had been with all the princes in Europe.' As an essayist, although Chesterfield cannot compete with Addison or Steele, he is far from contemptible,... | |
 | William Henry Craig - 1907 - 458 pages
...literary coterie — Swift, Addison, Pope, Gay, Arbuthnot, etc. — he was ambitious to associate. " I used to think myself in company as much above me when I was with Mr. Addison or Mr. Pope," he declared, " as if I had been with all the princes of Europe," 2 and though at the... | |
 | Theodore L. Flood, Frank Chapin Bray - 1911 - 462 pages
...aristocracy of intellect as well as of birth, and testified to it handsomely when he wrote: "For my own part I used to think myself in company as much above me,...as if I had been with all the Princes in Europe." Horace Walpole, fourth Earl of Orford, and accomplished foe to Chesterfield, was a nobleman of the... | |
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For my own part, I used to think myself in company as much above me, when I was with Mr. Addison and Mr. Pope, as if I had been with all the Princes in Europe. 
