 | Percy Sadler - 1876 - 466 pages
...contending; but I found my attendance (1) so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would sufler me to continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in public, I had exhansted ail thé art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had donc ail... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1877 - 478 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...little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suifer me to continue it. When once I had addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the... | |
 | Gasc - 1879 - 288 pages
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 | Horace Hills Morgan - 1880 - 476 pages
...your address, and could not forbear to wish that 10 I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre: that I might obtain that regard for which...addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted 15 all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - 1880 - 474 pages
...your address, and could not forbear to wish that 10 I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre : that I might obtain that regard for which...When I had once addressed your lordship in public, 1 had exhausted 15 all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had... | |
 | William Baptiste Scoones - 1880 - 606 pages
...your 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...continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess.... | |
 | William Baptiste Scoones - 1880 - 608 pages
...your 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...continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1880 - 488 pages
...your 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...modesty would suffer me to continue it.* When I had once ad1 Dr. Johnson appeared to hare a remarkable delicacy with respect to the circulation of this letter... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre1 — that 10 I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world...pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When once I had addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired... | |
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When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment... 
