 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 360 pages
...glace. Le lord Chesterfield lui prêta son crayon, dont la tête était de diamant ; et Pope écrivit : Accept a miracle instead of wit See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ.** * Ainsi la petite épigramme nous amuse et nous charme par son esprit en miniature. ** Accepter un... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pages
...Should you even write as ill as you can, your letters would be published as curiosities : * Behold a miracle ! instead of wit, ' See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ/' He gave us an entertaining account of Bet Flint? a woman of the town, who, with some eecentrick talents... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 562 pages
...Should you even write as ill as you can, your letters would be published as curiosities : ' Behold a miracle ! instead of wit, ' See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ." He gave us an entertaining account of Bet Flint, a woman of the town, who, with some eccentrick talents... | |
 | George Gregory - 1808 - 352 pages
...this kind of poem. It was written on glass with the diamond pencil of the late Lord Chesterfield — " Accept a miracle, instead of wit; " See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ." Martial is the author among the antients whose poems approach the nearest to the modern idea of epigram.... | |
 | John Selden - 1818 - 678 pages
...it. Should you even write as ill as you can, your letters would be published as curiosities: ' Behold a miracle ! instead of wit, ' See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ,' Johnson's attention to precision and clearness in expression was very remarkable. He disapproved of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 412 pages
...it. Should you even write as ill as you can, your letters would be published as curiosities: ' Behold a miracle ! instead of wit, See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ.' " He gave us an entertaining account of Bet Flint, :i woman of the town, who, with some eccentrick... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 506 pages
...Should you even write as ill as you can, your letters would be published as curiosities : ' Behold a miracle ! instead of wit, ' See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ.' " He gave us an entertaining account of Bet Flint, a woman of the town, who with some eccentrick talents... | |
 | John Bull - 1825 - 782 pages
...declined writing, because he hail no diamond : Lord Stanhope lent him his, und he wrote immediately — " Accept a miracle, instead of wit ; See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ." THE POZTICAL LANDLORD. A gentleman passing through Seven Oiks, in Kent, observed on a si^n in the road... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, James Boswell - 1825 - 370 pages
...Should you even write as ill as you can, your letters would be published as curiosities : ' Behold a miracle ! instead of wit, See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ.' " Johnson's attention to precision and clearness in expression was very remarkable. He disapproved... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 312 pages
...writing, because he had no diamond. Lord Chesterfield lent him his, and he immediately wrote : — ' Accept a miracle instead of wit : — See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ' " SPENCE. SIB JOHN SUCKLING. " SIR JOHN SUCKLING was a man of great vivacity and spirit. He died about... | |
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Do what you will, Sir, you cannot avoid it. Should you even write as ill as you can, your letters would be published as curiosities. ' Behold a miracle ! instead of wit See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ. 
