 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 pages
...forhear to wish that I might hoast myself Le vainquenr du misquenr de la terre ; that I might ohtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; but I found my attendanee so little eneouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pages
...enchantment of your address ; and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqucur du vainqueur de la terre;1— that I might obtain...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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 332 pages
...addre.«sa*-"1 «uld not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainqueur du vmnqueur de la terre; that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the...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.... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 786 pages
...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 I saw the...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.... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 pages
...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 I saw the...encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer rne to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqucur du vainqueur de la terre;'— that 1 might obtain that regard for which I saw the world...but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neixYier pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1857 - 396 pages
...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 I saw the...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.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 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...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.... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1858 - 424 pages
...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 I saw the...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.... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pages
...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainqittur du •caanjueur de la lerre ; — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the...continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the arts of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess.... | |
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I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending, but I found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. 
