| James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...please have sunk into the grave ; and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." That this indifference was rather a temporary than an habitual feeling, appears, I think, from his... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...please have sunk into the grave ; and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise'.' That this indifference was rather a temporary than an habitual feeling, appears, I think, from his... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...please have sunk into the grave ; and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise'.' That this indifference was rather a temporary than an habitual feeling, appears, I think, from his... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 pages
...excitefl. Though we may believe him in the declaration at the £nd of his preface, that he dismissed it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise ; there cannot be a doubt but that he was highly gratified by the reputation it acquired both at home... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pages
...please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds : I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure Or from praise. PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING THE DRAMATIC WORKS •> WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Printed in the Year 1756. VV HEN... | |
| Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 498 pages
...cannot but have some degree of parental fondness. But in Iris conclusion he tells us, " I dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." I deny the doctor's " frigidity." This polished period exhibits an affected stoicism, which no writer... | |
| 1807 - 604 pages
...order ; amidst great inconvenience, and considerable obstruction from want of proper materials. " 1 dismiss it, however, from my hands,' not like that...place, contribute to rescue from the gripe of private ma'evnle.nrc and public obloquy, an eminent, meritorious, and accomplished oilicer ; that it will tend,... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 514 pages
...please have sunk into the grave; and success and miscarriage arc empty sounds. 1 therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." That this indifference was rather a temporary than an habitual feeling, appears, I think, from his... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pages
...please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds : I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." More than half a. century has now elapsed since the publication of this great work, which, notwithstanding... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 210 pages
...excited. Though we may believe him in the declaration at the end of his preface, that he dismissed it with frigid" tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise , there cannot be a doubt but that he was highly gratified by the reputation it acquired both at home... | |
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