 | James Boswell - 1858 - 482 pages
...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.2 When I had once ad1 Dr. Johnson appeared to have a remarkable delicacy with respect to the circulation... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 pages
...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...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 - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1860 - 960 pages
...vainqueur de la terre 3 ; — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither...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 - Authors, English - 1860 - 496 pages
...dti 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...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;... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1860 - 404 pages
...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 8 continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - Great Britain - 1861 - 520 pages
...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. WThen I had once addressed your- lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 pages
...vainqucur 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...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 - American literature - 1862 - 550 pages
...vatuqtittir tie 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...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.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...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...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.... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...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...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 had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years, my lord... 
