| Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 σελίδες
...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainqittur du •caanjueur de la lerre ; — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the...addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the arts of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and... | |
| James Boswell - 1858 - 482 σελίδες
...and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqitcur du vainqueur de la terre — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the...neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it.2 When I had once ad1 Dr. Johnson appeared to have a remarkable delicacy with respect to the circulation... | |
| James Boswell - 1860 - 960 σελίδες
...and could not forbear to wish that I mi^ht boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre 3 ; — on to be alive only while his name will insure a good...will get you (to Johnson) a hundred guineas for any 1 could ; and no man is well pleased to have bis all neglected, be it ever so little. •* Seven years,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 σελίδες
...and could not forbear to wish that 1 might boast myself Le vainqucur du vainqueur de la terre;'— that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the...addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all ie art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can pos!ss. I had done all that I could ;... | |
| Katherine Thomson - 1860 - 376 σελίδες
...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...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 - 1860 - 496 σελίδες
...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...modesty would suffer me to continue it." When I had once ad1 Dr. Johnson appeared to have a remarkable delicacy with respect to the circulation of this letter;... | |
| James Boswell - 1860 - 948 σελίδες
...his life, would probably not hare been much to Lortl Chesterfield's tastu ; but it must be — ili.it I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; but I found my attendance no little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would siill-T me to continue it. When I had once... | |
| Alphonse Mariette - 1860 - 404 σελίδες
...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... | |
| Grace Wharton, Philip Wharton - 1861 - 522 σελίδες
...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...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.... | |
| Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1861 - 520 σελίδες
...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...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... | |
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