 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 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 Philemon Holcombe - American letters - 1866 - 540 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.... | |
 | Gems - English poetry - 1866 - 168 pages
...dn vainqncur dc la tcrrc; 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 Philemon Holcombe - English letters - 1866 - 548 pages
...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...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 Walton Sanders - Readers - 1862 - 610 pages
...I saw the world 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 in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing, which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess.... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...they were expressed," remarking at the same time, '• This man has great powers." 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 Crampton - 1868 - 136 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.... | |
 | William Francis Collier - English literature - 1868 - 550 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 sufler me to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the... | |
 | Class-book - Literature - 1869 - 344 pages
...vainqueur de la terre ; l 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.... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - English poetry - 1869 - 306 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.... | |
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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... 
