May see thee now, though late, redeem thy name,
And glorify what else is damn'd to fame.
Savage: Character of Foster.
[331:3] See Shakespeare, page [131].
[331:4] See Addison, page [299].
[331:5] See Shakespeare, page [93].
This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among lords.—Johnson (Boswell's Life): vol. ii. ch. i.
A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge.—Cowper: Conversation, line 298.
Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.—Walter Scott: Life of Napoleon.