 | Samuel Johnson - 1992 - 476 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | Joan G. Nagle - 1996 - 400 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | John Gross - 1998 - 1064 pages
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 | Elbert Hubbard - 1998 - 248 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | 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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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. 
