 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
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...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. David Hume: 1711-1776. The Middle Station of Life. We may remark of the middle station of life, that... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 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. Eagerness: eager originally meant sharp, bitter, being indeed the Lat. acer, derived through the... | |
 | 1872 - 556 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. — Preface to his Dictionary of the English Language. [DK. HUGH BLAIR. 1718 — 17 .] TASTE AND GENIUS.... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 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 VOYAGE OF LIFE. "LIFE," says Seneca, "is a voyage, in the progress of which we are perpetually... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 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... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 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. EDWAJID GIBBON. EDWAKD GIBBON, author of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was born AD 1737,... | |
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...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 spirit of his dead wife must have been haunting him once again as he wrote these words. There is... | |
 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 480 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 spirit of his dead wife must have been haunting him once again as he wrote these words. There is... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 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. DR. S. JOHNSON : Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language. Those who have been persuaded to... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 pages
...have «unk into the grave, and success and mis'•rirriajre are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it ume this great master of Oriental learning thus writes: "I have regularly and attent From the Preface to The Dictionary of the Englixh Language. SHAKESPEARE. Shakespeare is, above all... | |
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