 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...the praise of perfection, which if I could obtain in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me? I have protracted my work till most of those whom...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 - 496 pages
...the praise of perfection, which if I could obtain in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me ? I have protracted my work till most of those whom...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
...the praise of perfection, which if I could obtain in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me? I have protracted my work till most of those whom...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 - 1805 - 954 pages
...which, if I could «tein, in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me ? 1 have protracted my werk till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and suc<'••'•••> and miscarriage are empty sounds ; I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillit/,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pages
...praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain, in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me? I have protracted my work till most of those whom...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
...application, I 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... | |
 | Edward Alured Draper - 1806 - 364 pages
...want of proper materials. I dismiss it, however, from my hands, not like that great and learned man, " with frigid " tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from '*' censure or from praise ;" but with eager hope, with anxious expectation,, with longing solicitude, that it will become popular,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 pages
...praise of perfection, which if I could obtain in this gloom oi solitude, what would it avail me ! 1 have protracted my work till most of those whom I...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... | |
 | 1807 - 604 pages
...of proper materials. " 1 dismiss it, however, from my hands,' not like that great and learned man, ' with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise ;' but with eager hope, with anxious expectation, with longing solicitude, that it will become popular,... | |
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I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain, in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me? I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage... 
