 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.  The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine - Page 621807Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 600 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 - 1831 - 602 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 - 1833 - 1186 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 thereof, or any and which of them by information, or how otherwise ? " I am of opinion that... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 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... | |
 | 1838
...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 TO highly gratified by the reputation it acquired both at home... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 462 pages
...cannot but have some degree of parental fondness." But, in his 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... | |
 | 1841 - 588 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." W. MIGHT AGAINST RIGHT. A ROMANCE OF THE TYROLESE WAB. BY THE How. E. PHIPPS. CHAP. VII. THUS far had... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. 1 therefore dismiss it [Reflections on Landing at lona.] [From the * Journey to the Western Isles.1] We were now treading... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are alike empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. Letter to Lard Chesterfield. February 7, 1755. My Lord— I have been lately informed by the proprietor... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pages
...please have sunk into the grave; and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. 1 therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." That this thereof, or any and which of them by information, or how otherwise ? " I am of opinion that... | |
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