 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 pages
...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre ; 2— « that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 pages
...of your address ; 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...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
...enchantment of your 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...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;... | |
 | United States. Internal Revenue Service, Lucile B. Spurlock, Luthera Burton Dawson - 1961 - 216 pages
...your Lordship, I was overpowered like the rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address . . . ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged that...neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it .... Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from... | |
 | United States. Internal Revenue Service - 1961 - 216 pages
...your Lordship, I was overpowered like the rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address . . . ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged that...neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it .... Seven years, rny Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from... | |
 | Calvin Darlington Linton - 1962 - 216 pages
...your Lordship, I was overpowered like the rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address . . . ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged that...neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it .... Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 pages
...by 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...addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the arts of pleasing, which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ;... | |
 | Bill Moore - 1987 - 180 pages
...your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address. . . But I found my attendance so little encouraged, that...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... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1993 - 638 pages
...himself: In the famous letter to Lord Chesterfield: "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" (Boswell, Life of Johnson, 184-85). Carlyle observes, "What soul-subduing magic, for the... | |
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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... 
