 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...production is called Grubstreet."—" Lexicographer, a writer of dic;ionaries, a harmless drudge2." At the time when he was concluding his very eloquent...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...others, but sometimes in playful allusion to the notions commonly entertained of his own laborions m. 1 am @ hojie from censure or from praise." That this thereof, or any and which of them by information, or... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 pages
...probable motive of the attack on the Excise. — CHOKER. praise of perfection, which if I could ohtain in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me...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... | |
 | 1841 - 588 pages
...upon their work, were obliged to change its economy, and give their second edition another form, I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection,...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...upon their work, were obliged to change its economy, and give their second edition another form, I sandalled were ; And wildly glittered here and there...: — Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But [Reflections on Landing at lona.] [From the * Journey to the Western Isles.1] We were now treading... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me I 1 , Ye I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pages
...histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems ; whence any mean production is called Grub Street." — "Lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 pages
...have already seen (ante. Vol. I. p, 31.) the probable moti re of the attack on the Exdse. — CHOKER. praise of perfection, which if I could obtain in this...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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1851 - 192 pages
...their work, were obliged to change its economy, and give their second edition another form, I ma}- surely be contented without the praise of perfection,...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...the praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail met I have protracted my work till most of those whom...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... | |
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I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to 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. 
