 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.  Progressive Readings in Prose - Strana 238úprava: - 1923 - Počet stránok 376Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - Počet stránok 780
...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 world...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 - 1860 - Počet stránok 960
...not forbear to wish that I mi^ht boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre 3 ; — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world...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 - 1860 - Počet stránok 496
...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur dti vainqueur de la terre—that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world...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;... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - Počet stránok 950
...life, would probably not hare been much to Lortl Chesterfield's tastu ; but it must be — ili.it I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; but I found my attendance no little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would siill-T me to continue it. When I had once... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1860 - Počet stránok 404
...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 - 1861 - Počet stránok 520
...and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world...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 - Počet stránok 550
...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Te vainqumr da vatuqtittir tie la terre,— that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world...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 - 1862 - Počet stránok 678
...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le minqucur du vainqucur de la terre, — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world...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 - Počet stránok 788
...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...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 - Počet stránok 554
...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; but I found my attendance BO little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once... | |
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