When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre... The Life of Samuel Johnson - Page 211by Robert Anderson - 639 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 pages
...encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address ; and could not forbear to wish that...boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre ; 2— « that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; but I found my attendance... | |
| James Boswell - 1860 - 496 pages
...encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur dti vainqueur de la terre—that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending; but... | |
| Katherine Thomson - 1860 - 376 pages
...encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address ; and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending... | |
| James Boswell - 1860 - 950 pages
...encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself /.'• vainquevr du niinquevr dc la cerrtr1; time, declined to comply with the request, saying, with... | |
| Alphonse Mariette - 1860 - 404 pages
...could not forbear to wish 4 that I might boast myself 5 le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre;—that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending; 6 but I found my attendance 7 so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to... | |
| Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1861 - 520 pages
...mankind, by the enchantment of your address ; and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre — that I might...pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. WThen I had once addressed your- lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which... | |
| Grace Wharton, Philip Wharton - 1861 - 522 pages
...encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address; and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre —that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending;... | |
| William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 pages
...encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le minqucur du vainqucur de la terre, — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending... | |
| William Francis Collier - 1862 - 550 pages
...encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Te vainqumr da vatuqtittir tie la terre,— that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world... | |
| Alphonse Mariette - 1863 - 400 pages
...mankind, by the enchantment of your address,5 and could not forbear to wish 8 that I might boast myself 7 le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre ; — that I...obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; 8 but I found my attendance 9 so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me... | |
| |