 | James Boswell - 1827 - 622 pages
...and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du taitufueur d; la ierre-— 't come." JOIINSON : " You must talk to Mrs. Williams about this." Here was a sad dilemma. I feared pnde nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your .Lordship ш public,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 576 pages
...of your address, and couid not forbear to wish that I might boast mvseli Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre;— that I might obtain that regard for which I я« the world contending ; but I found mv attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor... | |
 | Joseph Hervey Hull - 1828 - 84 pages
...address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Lc vaingueur an vainqueur dc la tent ;— that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; but I found my attendance to little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it When I had once... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 604 pages
...address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Levainqueur du vainqueur de la terre1; —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.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 600 pages
...and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainquevr de la terre1; — 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 - 1831 - 602 pages
...and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Levainqueur du vainqueur de la terre1; — 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.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 pages
...overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the...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
...not forbear to wish that I might boast myself " the conqueror of the conqueror of the earth ;" — 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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...forbear to wish, that 1 might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre ; that I rnipht obtuin Johnson encourased, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When 1 had once addressed... | |
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When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address ; and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre... 
