 | Conduct of life - 1836 - 342 pages
...enchantment of your address ; and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre ; — that I might obtain...continue it When I had once addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...address, and could not forbear to wish, that I might bout myself U vainqueur du vatnaueur de la tare ; that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the...continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing, which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess.... | |
 | 1838 - 1050 pages
...that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard or which I saw the world contending ; but I found my...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 which a retired... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 624 pages
...de la terre ; that I might obtain that regard for which 1 saw the world contending. But I found mv attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride...continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing, which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess.... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - English letters - 1841 - 338 pages
...of your address ; and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainjueur dti vainyueur de la terre; — that I might obtain that regard for...saw the world contending ; but I found my attendance BO little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it When I had once... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1842 - 386 pages
...not forbear to wish that I might boast myself " the conqueror of the conqueror of the earth ;" — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the...publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a rctired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 620 pages
...enchantment of 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,...little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would Buffer me to continue it. When 1 had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all Ule... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 624 pages
...your address, and could not forbear to wish, that I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur dt la terre ; that I might obtain that regard for which...continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing, which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...to wish that I might boast myself le vainqueur du rainqvew de la terre; — that I might i .Ы ¡un lord-hip in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boa&t myself le vainqueur tles on his $ sutler me to continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the... | |
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I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending, but I found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. 
