 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...could not forbear to wish, that I might boast myself " le vainqueur du vainqneur de la terre ;" that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world...continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing, which a retired and unconrtly scholar can possess.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 pages
...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 world...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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 pages
...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 world contending. Bnt I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 440 pages
...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 world...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.... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 524 pages
...to wish that I might boast myself, 1e vainguieur du vainquieur de la terre, that I might obtain the regard for which I saw the world contending ; but...little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would allow me to continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 622 pages
...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du taitufueur d; la ierre-— that me." JOIINSON : " You must talk to Mrs. Williams about this." Here was a sad dilemma. I feared pnde nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your .Lordship ш public,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 576 pages
...la terre;— that I might obtain that regard for which I я« the world contending ; but I found mv attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride...suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed vour Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtlv scholar... | |
 | Joseph Hervey Hull - 1828 - 84 pages
...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Lc vaingueur an vainqueur dc la tent ;— that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; but I found my attendance to little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it When I had once... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 600 pages
...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainquevr de la terre1; — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world...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 - 1831 - 604 pages
...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Levainqueur du vainqueur de la terre1; —that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world...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.... | |
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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... 
