 | Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - 1858 - 362 pàgines
...forbear to wish that I might boast myself le voinqueur du vainqueur de la terre; — that I might obtain5 that regard for which I saw the world contending;...continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly4 scholar can possess.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1858 - 482 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 pàgines
...and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqucur 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 public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pàgines
...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 public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 496 pàgines
...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 - 950 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 550 pàgines
...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...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.... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 pàgines
...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...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.... | |
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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. 
