 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; — that...  Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson - Page 84by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 197 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - Historical fiction - 1809 - 210 pages
...not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le rainquieur du ruin. guieur de la terre, that I mighl obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending...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.... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 524 pages
...pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. AVhen I had once addressed your Lordship in 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 to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1809 - 530 pages
...pride nor modesty \vould suffer me to 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. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in public, I exhausted all The art of pleasing, which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that 1 could ; and no anan is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1816 - 154 pages
...pride nor modesty would suffer me to 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 — I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.... | |
 | 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...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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 368 pages
...Honourable the Earl of CHESTERFIELD. " MY LORD, '.' I have been lately informed, by the proprietors of the World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary...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.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 394 pages
...pride nor modesty would suffer me to 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. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 508 pages
...pride nor modesty would suffer me to 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. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.... | |
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