 | James Boswell - 1831 - 600 pages
...du vainquevr de la terre1; — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that...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 - 1831 - 604 pages
...du vainqueur de la terre1; —that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that...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.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 pages
...and could not forbear to wish that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending. But I found my attendance so little encouraged, that...the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly •When Dr. Johnson had commenced his large Dictionary, he waited upon Lord Chesterfield, for his patronage,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...the world contending ; but I found my itlfnuWe so little encouraged, that neither prule nor mddesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in publick, 1 had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly xhfllu can possess.... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 pages
...conqueror of the earth ;" — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending : but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that...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, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...obtuin that regard for which I saw the world contending. But I found my attendance so little encourased, q8 # 1 had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing, which a retired... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 pages
...du vaingueur 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...continue it. (') When I had once addressed your lordship (1) Johnson's personal manners and habits, even at a later and more polished period of his life, would... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...contending ; but I /bund my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would surfer ices without sight, did but little while they enjoyed that bl pubtick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...vainqueur du vatnaueur de la tare ; that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending. But I found my attendance so little encouraged, that...which a retired 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.... | |
 | 1838 - 1050 pages
...vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard or which I saw the world contending ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged that...pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When " had once addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired... | |
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I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired 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. 
