 | Alphonse Mariette - 1863 - 400 pages
...could not forbear to wish 8 that I might boast myself 7 le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre ; — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; 8 but I found my attendance 9 so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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 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... | |
 | James Philemon Holcombe - English letters - 1866 - 548 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 world contending ; but J found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1862 - 610 pages
...address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainqueur du aainqucur de la terre*— that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the...contending; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, thai neither pride not modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship... | |
 | Thomas Crampton - 1868 - 136 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...done all that I could, and no man is well pleased to Lave his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited... | |
 | William Francis Collier - English literature - 1868 - 550 pages
...anil 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...little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would sufler me to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vaingueur du vaingtieur de la tyre ; — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world (1) End, finish, complete. " To ' end ' is to discontinue, to * finish ' ia to work at for the last... | |
 | William Francis Collier - American literature - 1869 - 572 pages
...and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vaingneur du vainqueur de la terre, — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the...me to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lord.jship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and -«, •, uncourtly... | |
 | English authors - English literature - 1869 - 458 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...pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When once I had addressed your lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le cainyuour du cainquour de la hrre; that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the...encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer mo to continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in publie, I had exhausted all the art of... | |
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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... 
