 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 506 pages
...could " not forbear to wish, that I might boast my" self le vainqueur du vainqueur de la lerre ; " that I might obtain that regard for which " I saw...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 - 1817 - 466 pages
...and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself /.i vainquear du vainquenr de la Ierre; — 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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 368 pages
...of your 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...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 - 1820 - 442 pages
...of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqneur du vainqneur de la terre ; — that I might obtain that regard...little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would sutler me to continne it. When I had cure addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhansted all the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 388 pages
...your 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...publick, 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 pages
...enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vamqueur de la terre ; — that I might obtain that regard...publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which n retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 508 pages
...enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqucur du vamgueur de la terre ; — that I might obtain that regard...publick, 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 442 pages
...of your 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...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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 426 pages
...the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre; that I might obtain that regard for which...publick, 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... | |
 | Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...of your address ; and could not forbear to wish that 1 might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqucur de la terre ; — that I might obtain that regard...publick, 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... | |
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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 of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre... 
