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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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Dr. Johnson: His Life in Letters

Samuel Johnson - 1965 - 262 pages
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The Voices of Prose

William Stafford, Frederick H. Candelaria - 1966 - 544 pages
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English Literature

David Daiches - 1965 - 876 pages
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Contemporary Essays on Style: Rhetoric, Linguistics, and Criticism

Michael Payne - 1969 - 328 pages
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Johnson & Goldsmith & Their Poetry

William Henry Hudson - 1971 - 206 pages
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Samuel Johnson and the Life of Writing

Paul Fussell - 1971 - 328 pages
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The Personal History of Samuel Johnson

Christopher Hibbert - 1971 - 402 pages
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New Aspects of Lexicography: Literary Criticism, Intellectual History, and ...

Howard D. Weinbrot - 1972 - 232 pages
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The Life of Samuel Johnson

Robert Anderson - 696 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 arts of pleasing, which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess....
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The Life of Samuel Johnson

Robert Anderson - 1973 - 696 pages
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