 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...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...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.... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1863 - 400 pages
...could not forbear to wish 8 that I might boast myself 7 le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre ; — that I might 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqunir 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 Philemon Holcombe - American letters - 1866 - 540 pages
...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...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.... | |
 | Gems - English poetry - 1866 - 168 pages
...address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Lc rainqucur dn vainqncur dc la tcrrc; 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 Philemon Holcombe - English letters - 1866 - 548 pages
...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 world contending ; but J found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1862 - 610 pages
...address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainqueur du aainqucur de la terre*— that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the...contending; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, thai neither pride not modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship... | |
 | Thomas Crampton - 1868 - 136 pages
...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...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.... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...observed how well they were expressed," remarking at the same time, '• This man has great powers." contending; but I found my attendance so little encouraged,...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. 
