 | William Francis Collier - 1868 - 550 pages
...anil 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...little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would sufler me to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - 1869 - 306 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.... | |
 | Class-book - 1869 - 344 pages
...address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre ; l 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 Francis Collier - 1869 - 572 pages
...and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vaingneur du vainqueur de la terre, — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the...me to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lord.jship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and -«, •, uncourtly... | |
 | English authors - 1869 - 458 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...pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When once I had addressed your lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le cainyuour du cainquour de la hrre; that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the...encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer mo to continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in publie, I had exhausted all the art of... | |
 | Louis Le Brun, Henri van Laun - 1869 - 290 pages
...address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainqueur du vninqueur de la terre — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; 2 but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me... | |
 | David Henry Cruttenden - 1870 - 618 pages
...address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself, Le vainquer du vainquer 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 exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had... | |
 | William Smith, Benjamin Nicholas Martin - 1870 - 482 pages
...and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself JLe vainqueur du vainqtieur 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.... | |
 | George Seton - 1870 - 280 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.... | |
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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. 
