 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 594 pages
...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 which a retired...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 lord, have now passed... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 pages
...uor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your lordi-hip in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing, which a retired...uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that 1 could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. " Seven years,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 332 pages
...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 which a retired...uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that 1 could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. " Seven years,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...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 which a retired...it ever so little. Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...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 which a retired...it ever so little. Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1858 - 424 pages
...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 which a retired...it ever so little. " Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward room, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pages
...me to 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...it ever so little. Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have... | |
 | Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - 1858 - 362 pages
...addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly4 scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ;...well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.5 Seven years, my Lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1858 - 638 pages
...and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well-pleased to hftve his all neglected, be it ever so little. " Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I hare... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1860 - 376 pages
...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...lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward room, or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties,... | |
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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. 
