 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
 | Gilbert Milligan Tucker - 1895 - 258 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." With all its faults, Johnson's dictionary was a work of entirely unprecedented excellence. Beside coming... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - 136 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." 21 30. Teutonic language. The Teutonic languages are those spoken by the Teutonic or German races,... | |
 | John St. Loe Strachey - 1897 - 356 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. Of course, Johnson did not always write like this. Too often the exquisite melody of such a phrase... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 922 pages
...please have sunk into the grave ; and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it ation. I defend my criticism in the same manner with you. We must confess the That this indifference was rather a temporary than an habitual feeling, appears, I think, from his... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge - 1900 - 232 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 great lexicographer chose words as well as he defined them. " Sir," says he to Sir Joshua Reynolds,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 632 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... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Thompson, Thomas Budd Shaw - 1901 - 866 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." § 3. During the years devoted to the Dictionary Johnson sought diversion from time to time in other... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 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. ) I Lives of the Poets ., Lives of the Poets. MILTON AS A SCHOOLMASTER. HE now hired a lodging at the... | |
 | Whitwell Elwin - 1902 - 618 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 praise."2 One of the departed friends whom he had wished to please was Edward Cave. Johnson had been... | |
 | John T. Winterich - 1929 - 430 pages
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