 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 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 prais'e. I? 2 PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING THE DRAMATICK WORKS OF 'WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Printed in the Year 1756.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 432 pages
...this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me? I have protracted my work till most of those whom 1 wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. * * Dr. Johnson's Dictionary was published on the fifteenth day of April 1755, in two vols. folio,... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1823 - 266 pages
...received, will matter little to him. In the words of a great moralist he can say, that he dismisses it with tranquillity, having "little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." . THE END. JGBARNARD, Mixiur Stria, ... | |
 | 1824 - 706 pages
...that might approve, And none are left to please, when none are left to love. Childc Наг. с. 2. I have protracted my work till most of those whom...frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope ftom censure or from praise. Pref. to Johnton't Diet. Her dark eyes flashing thro' their tears, Uke... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 416 pages
...if I could obtain, in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me ? I have protracted my work tin most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FOURTH EDITION or -THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY. MANY are the works of huniau industry,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1824 - 454 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 I wished to please have sunk into the grave j and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 476 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 ''. e Dr. Johnson's Dictionary was published on the fifieenth day of April 1755, ia two vols. folio,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 500 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...having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise8. " Dr. Johnson's Dictionary was published on the fifteenth day of April 1755, in two vols.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 pages
...praise of perfection, which, it' I could obtain, In this gloom of solitude, what would It avail me? gulate bis attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come cenh'jre or from praise. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FOURTH EDITION OF THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY. Млхт arc... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 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...have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage arc empty sounds : I, therefore, dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope... | |
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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... 
