 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainquenr du vainqueur dc la ferre, 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.... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainquatrduvainqueurde 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.... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1872 - 582 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.... | |
 | American literature - 1872 - 660 pages
...and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainifueur 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.... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1873 - 814 pages
...address, 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 - 1873 - 620 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 world contending ; hut I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to... | |
 | United States. Internal Revenue Service - English language - 1961 - 216 pages
...your Lordship, I was overpowered like the rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address . . . ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged that...neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it .... Seven years, rny Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from... | |
 | Calvin Darlington Linton - English language - 1962 - 216 pages
...your Lordship, I was overpowered like the rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address . . . ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged that...neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it .... Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from... | |
 | Robert Anderson - College readers - 696 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 arts 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. 
