 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 pages
...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 praise.' One of the departed friends whom he had wished to please was Edward Cave. Johnson had been... | |
 | 1859 - 578 pages
...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 praise.' One of the departed friends whom he had wished to please was Edward Cave. Johnson had been... | |
 | 1859 - 650 pages
...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 cc-nBure or praise.' One of the departed friends whom he had wished to please was Edward Cave. Johnson... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pages
...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." That this indifference was rather a temporary than an habitual feeling, appears, I think, from his... | |
 | James Wynne - 1860 - 500 pages
...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." The first volume has a fine portrait of the great lexicographer, one of the earliest ever published... | |
 | Gordon Willoughby James Gyll - 1860 - 410 pages
...their place resigned Or disappeared, and left the first behind. Pope's Temple of Fame. 157 therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. All ingenuous critics, however, admit it to be one of the most stupendous literary accomplishments... | |
 | Gordon Willoughby James Gyll - 1860 - 412 pages
...something is contributed to language and philology, he dismisses the work with a becoming and dignified tranquillity, " having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. IN offering the miscellaneous observations contained in the accompanying... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...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. REFLECTIONS ON LANDING AT IONA. 1 We were now treading that illustrious island which was onco the luminary... | |
 | 1864 - 656 pages
...wished to 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." This morbid apathy, the expression of which is probably a little exaggerated, was never known to Mr.... | |
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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. 
