 | William Baptiste Scoones - English letters - 1880 - 606 pages
...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...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 - Authors, English - 1880 - 488 pages
...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...modesty would suffer me to continue it.* When I had once ad1 Dr. Johnson appeared to hare a remarkable delicacy with respect to the circulation of this letter... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre1 — that 10 I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world...pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When once I had addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired... | |
 | Authors, English - 1880 - 556 pages
...de la torn — that 1 might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; bu 1 1 fcund my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride...addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the arts of pleasing which a wearied and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and... | |
 | William Baptiste Scoones - English letters - 1880 - 644 pages
...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainque,ar du vainqurur ile la ttrrt,—thnt I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world...found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither priile nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in publick,... | |
 | United States. Internal Revenue Service - English language - 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 - English language - 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 - College readers - 696 pages
...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 ;... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Literary Criticism - 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 very clown... | |
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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... 
