 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
 | Gordon Willoughby James Gyll - 1860 - 410 pages
...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... | |
 | James Wynne - 1860 - 532 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." The first volume has a fine portrait of the great lexicographer, one of the earliest ever published... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pages
...please have sunk into the grave ; and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it t of an ancient statue, but somewhat disfigured by the scars of that evil, which, it That this indifference was rather a temporary than an habitual feeling, appears, I think, from his... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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. REFLECTIONS ON LANDING AT IONA. 1 We were now treading that illustrious island which was onco the luminary... | |
 | The North American Review.VOL.XCVIII - 1864 - 654 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." This morbid apathy, the expression of which is probably a little exaggerated, was never known to Mr.... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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. 214. FROM 'THE RAMBLER.' THE RIGHT IMPROVEMENT OF TIME. It is usual for those who are advised to the... | |
 | 1864 - 656 pages
...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.... | |
 | Leland A. Webster - 1866 - 372 pages
...please have sunk into the grave ; and success or miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope, from censure or from praise." Not less has the laborer, who has toiled so long in this unre* Dr. Johnson. quited and unappreciated... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1867 - 494 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... | |
 | Book - 1868 - 168 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. -1"' ''/... 1MJ L- ) THE HAMLET. 'T'HE hinds how blest, who ne'er beguiled To quit their hamlet's hawthorn-wild,... | |
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