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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. "
Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the ... - Page 303
by James Boswell - 1799
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Words that Taste Good

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...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....
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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History

Thomas Carlyle - 1993 - 638 pages
...105.10-11 above. 155.35-36. 'scholar' as he calls himself: In the famous letter to Lord Chesterfield: "When I had once addressed your Lordship in publick,...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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Handbook for Preparing Engineering Documents: From Concept to Completion

Joan G. Nagle - 1995 - 396 pages
...Lordship, l was overpowered like the rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address .. . ; but l 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 l waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from...
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Samuel Johnson

Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 pages
...adress, and could not forbear to wish that I might 12 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 incouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once adressed...
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Charles W. Chesnutt: Essays and Speeches: Essays and Speeches

Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., Robert C. Leitz, Jesse S. Crisler - 2001 - 644 pages
...and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself, le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre28 — 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 wearied and uncourtly scholar can possess....
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Samuel Johnson as Book Reviewer: A Duty to Examine the Labors of the Learned

Brian Hanley - 2001 - 308 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 world contending, but 1 found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue...
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中西诗比较鉴赏与翻译理论: comparative poetics and translatology

辜正坤 - 2003 - 580 pages
...terre'1"@that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world02' contending; but I found my attendance"3' so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer"" me to continue it. "5) When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell - 2008 - 1024 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...but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that a Add: Dr Johnson appeared to have had a remarkable delicacy with respect to the circulation of this...
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