 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 pages
...and could not forbear to wish that 1 might boast myself Le vainqucur du vainqueur de la terre;'— that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the...addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all ie art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can pos!ss. I had done all that I could ;... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1860 - 376 pages
...address ; and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the...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 - 1860 - 496 pages
...and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur dti vainqueur de la terre—that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world...modesty would suffer me to continue it." When I had once ad1 Dr. Johnson appeared to have a remarkable delicacy with respect to the circulation of this letter;... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1860 - 404 pages
...but I found my attendance 7 so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to 8 continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship...which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess ; 9 I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so... | |
 | Grace Wharton, Philip Wharton - 1861 - 522 pages
...address; and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre —that I might obtain that regard for which I saw...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.... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1861 - 520 pages
...address ; and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the...pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. WThen I had once addressed your- lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 550 pages
...and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Te vainqumr da vatuqtittir tie la terre,— that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the...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,... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 pages
...address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le minqucur du vainqucur de la terre, — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the...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,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending; but I found my attendance BO little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty...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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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. 
