 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...contending; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...contending; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 pages
...pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship TO^A hausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. 1 had dene all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 328 pages
...contending; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your...uncourtly scholar can possess— I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to hear his all neglected, be it ever so little.—Seven years,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 350 pages
...contending. But I found my attend" ance so little encouraged, that neither pride " nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. "When I had once addressed your Lordship " in publick, I exhausted all the art of plea" sing, which a retired and uncourtly scholar " can possess.... | |
 | John Watkins - 1808 - 768 pages
...exhausted all the art of pleasing which a ¿ tired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. “Seven years, my lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was i¿epulsed from your door;... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 pages
...contending; but 1 found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 506 pages
...contending. But I found " my attendance so little encouraged, that " neither pride nor modesty would suffer me " to continue it. When I had once addressed " your...uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done " all that I could; and no man is well pleased " to have his all neglected, be it ever so " little. " Seven years,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 pages
...contending :—but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your...exhausted all the art of pleasing, which a retired scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...contending ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your...uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. " Seven years,... | |
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me to continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that 1 could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it... 
