 | James Boswell - 1831 - 602 páginas
...and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Levainqueur du vainqueur de la terre1; — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the...continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 604 páginas
...address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Levainqueur du vainqueur de la terre1; —that I might obtain that regard for which I saw...continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 páginas
...overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the...the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly •When Dr. Johnson had commenced his large Dictionary, he waited upon Lord Chesterfield, for his patronage,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 páginas
...the world contending ; but I found my itlfnuWe so little encouraged, that neither prule nor mddesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in publick, 1 had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly xhfllu can possess.... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 páginas
...not forbear to wish that I might boast myself " the conqueror of the conqueror of the earth ;" — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the...continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 páginas
...forbear to wish, that 1 might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre ; that I rnipht obtuin Johnson encourased, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When 1 had once addressed... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 páginas
...and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le rainqueur du vaingueur de la terre;—that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world...continue it. (') When I had once addressed your lordship (1) Johnson's personal manners and habits, even at a later and more polished period of his life, would... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 páginas
...and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqufur du vainqueur de la terre l : — h subject, to the said Mr. Johnson, during the term of his dictatorship. /bund my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would surfer me to continue... | |
 | 1838 - 1050 páginas
...that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard or which I saw the world contending ; but I found my...pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When " had once addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 334 páginas
...could not forbear to wish that I might VOL. I.—E boast myself IK vainqueur du vatnqueur de la tcrre; that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending. But I found ray attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it.... | |
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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... 
