...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...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....

...105.10-11 above. 155.35-36. 'scholar' as he calls himself: In the famous letter to Lord Chesterfield: "When I had once addressed your Lordship in publick,...which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess" (Boswell, Life of Johnson, 184-85). Carlyle observes, "What soul-subduing magic, for the very clown...

...Lordship, l was overpowered like the rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address .. . ; but l 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 l waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from...

...enchantment of your adress, and could not forbear to wish that I might 12 boast myself Le Vainqueur du Vainqueur de la Terre, that I might obtain that regard...world contending, but I found my attendance so little incouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once adressed...

...and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself, le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre28 — 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 wearied and uncourtly scholar can possess....

...not forbear to wish ... that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending, but 1 found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither...pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it" (Letters of Samuel Johnson, ed. Redford, 1:95). For additional context, see Sledd and Kolb, Dr. Johnson's...

...enchantment 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...but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that a Add: Dr Johnson appeared to have had a remarkable delicacy with respect to the circulation of this...