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The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany - Page 111
1796
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Samuel Johnson, His Words and His Ways, what He Said, what He Did, and what ...

Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 348 pages
...enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur tlu vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty...
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Johnson. Select works, ed. with intr. and notes by A. Milnes. Lives of ...

Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainque-ur du vainqueur de la terre ; — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty...
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English Literature in the Eighteenth Century

Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 pages
...enchantment of your address ; and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre ;— that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty...
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Four Centuries of English Letters: Selections from the Correspondence of One ...

William Baptiste Scoones - 1880 - 606 pages
...enchantment of your address ; and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty...
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The Handbook of Specimens of English Literature: Selected from the Chief ...

Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 pages
...enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre ; that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty...
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Literary Studies from the Great British Authors

Horace Hills Morgan - 1880 - 476 pages
...enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that 10 I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre: that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty...
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Four Centuries of English Letters: Selections from the Correspondence of One ...

William Baptiste Scoones - 1880 - 608 pages
...enchantment of your address ; and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty...
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A History of English Literature: In a Series of Biographical Sketches

William Francis Collier - 1880 - 558 pages
...of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Ze vainqueur du. vainqueitr de la terre, — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending; but I found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty...
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Studies in English prose: specimens, with notes, by J. Payne

Joseph Payne - 1881 - 516 pages
...of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainquewr de la terre ; — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world (1) End, finish, complete. " To ' end ' is to discontinue, to ' finish * is to work at...
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Court Life Below Stairs: Or, London Under the First Georges, L714-1760, Volume 3

Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1883 - 426 pages
...enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre; that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending. But I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty...
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