 | Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - 1858 - 362 pages
...that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly4 scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1860 - 376 pages
...pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired...no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. ' Seven years, my lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward room, or... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pages
...that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship hem ; his erroneous assertions would then fall upon...might be blamed for not having mode experiments as to 1 could ; and no man is well pleased to have bis all neglected, be it ever so little. •* Seven years,... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1860 - 404 pages
...neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to 8 continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 pages
...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 ; and no man is well pleased to .ve his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 550 pages
...that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing...no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 pages
...that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing...no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing...no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing...no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or... | |
 | Wise sayings - 1864 - 394 pages
...billow In happy freedom, pleased to feel the air, And wander in the luxury of light. NEGLECT. Sorrow of I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Letter to Lord Chesterfield.— Dr. SAMUEL JOHNSON. NEST. Description of a Thrush's... | |
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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. 
