 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 pages
...pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired...uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 pages
...acquaintance on some opinion derogatory to his personal pretensions. Mr. Tyers, however, suggests a more in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing...uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, he it ever so little. " Seven years,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...pride nor modesty would surfer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in pubtick, Scanty circumstances, bad health, and blindness,...surely a sufficient apology for her being sometimes imp I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. " Seven years,... | |
 | 1836 - 342 pages
...that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it When I had once addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing...uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years, my... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing,...uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. " Seven years,... | |
 | 1838 - 1050 pages
...that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When " had once addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing...uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that could, and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. " Seven years, my... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 334 pages
...that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When 1 had once addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing...uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. " Seven years,... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - 1841 - 338 pages
...that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it When I had once addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing...uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years, my... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 620 pages
...Buffer me to continue it. When 1 had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all Ule art of pleasing, which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is wefl pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so tittle. "Seven years,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your lord-hip poseen». I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it... | |
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I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. 
