 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 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. . . . You may possibly ask me whether a man has it always in his power to get into the best company?... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 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. . . . You may possibly ask me whether a man has it always in his power to get into the best company?... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 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. . . . You may possibly ask me whether a man has it always in his power to get into the best company?... | |
 | 1911 - 918 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... | |
 | Roger Coxon - 1925 - 348 pages
...full of wisdom. Chesterfield at his best is, in fact, on the highest level of Pope, of whom he wrote to his son, " I used to think myself in company as...as if I had been with all the Princes in Europe." * The appreciation was, moreover, reciprocated by Pope, in whose Epilogue to the Satires occurs the... | |
 | John Dennis - English literature - 1928 - 280 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,... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1901 - 438 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... | |
 | 1879 - 1166 pages
...some peculiar merit, <tr 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. (Letter xcvi.) All general reflections, upon nations and societies, are the trite, threadbare jokes... | |
 | Marvin B. Becker - History - 1994 - 202 pages
...distinguished by some peculiar merit, or who excel in some particular valuable art or science. For my own part, I used to think myself in company as much above me, when 1 was with Mr Addison or Mr Pope, as if I had been with all the Princes of Europe . . . Oliver Goldsmith's... | |
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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. 
