When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment... Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books - Página 217por William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, John Heminge, Henry Condell, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Hippolyte Taine - 1910 - 437 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| James Boswell - 1791 - 564 páginas
...mankind, by the enchantment of your addrefs ; and could not forbear to wifh that I might boaft myfelf Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre ; — that I might obtain that regard for which I faw the world contending ; but I found my attendance fo little encouraged, that neither pride nor modefty... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 652 páginas
...chantment " chantment of your addrefs, and could not ** forbear to wifh, that I might boaft myfelf .** le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre\ that I " might obtain that regard for which I faw " the world contending. But I found my " attendance fo little encouraged, that neither " pride,... | |
| Joseph Towers - 1796 - 464 páginas
...by the enchantment of your ad' drefs ; and could not forbear to wifh that I might ' boaft myfelf " Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la " terre ;" that I might obtain that regard for whkh ' I faw the world contending ; but I found my at' tendance fo little encouraged, that neither... | |
| 1796 - 512 páginas
...mankind, by your addrels, and could not forbear to wifh that I might boaft myfelf Le vainqueur dit vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I faw the world contending ; but I found my attendance fo little encouraged, that neither pride nor modefty... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 496 páginas
...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...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 - 1799 - 640 páginas
...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 terre1 ; — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; but I found my... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 páginas
...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 tcrre' ; — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending; but I found my attendance... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 páginas
...your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainguieur itu 'vainguier dc la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which...nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I bad once addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 350 páginas
...address, and could not " forbear to wish, that I might boast myself " le vainqutur du vainqueur de le terre ; that I " might obtain that regard for which I saw the " world contending. But I found my attend" ance so little encouraged, that neither pride " nor modesty would suffer me to continue it.... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 514 páginas
...like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that 1 might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la...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.... | |
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