 | Louis Le Brun, Henri van Laun - 1869 - 290 σελίδες
...address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainqueur du vninqueur de la terre — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; 2 but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me... | |
 | David Henry Cruttenden - 1870 - 618 σελίδες
...address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself, Le vainquer du vainquer de la terre; that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the...When I had once addressed your lordship in public, I exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all... | |
 | George Seton - 1870 - 276 σελίδες
...and 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...that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to the Earl of Chesterfield. 79 to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 σελίδες
...address ; and 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...and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. the verge of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 σελίδες
...and 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 ; hut I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to... | |
 | United States. Internal Revenue Service - 1961 - 216 σελίδες
...your Lordship, I was overpowered like the rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address . . . ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged that...neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it .... Seven years, rny Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from... | |
 | United States. Internal Revenue Service, Lucile B. Spurlock, Luthera Burton Dawson - 1961 - 216 σελίδες
...your Lordship, I was overpowered like the rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address . . . ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged that...neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it .... Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from... | |
 | Calvin Darlington Linton - 1962 - 216 σελίδες
...your Lordship, I was overpowered like the rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address . . . ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged that...neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it .... Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 σελίδες
...address, and 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...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 ;... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1993 - 638 σελίδες
...himself: In the famous letter to Lord Chesterfield: "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" (Boswell, Life of Johnson, 184-85). Carlyle observes, "What soul-subduing magic, for the very clown... | |
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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... 
