 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 - 1887 - 598 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 praise2.' That this indifference was rather a temporary than an habitual feeling, appears, I think,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 566 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 - 1890 - 568 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1891 - 228 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. P. 75. Junius and Skinner; seventeenth-century scholars who devoted themselves• to the study of Old... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1891 - 72 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. P. 75. Junius and Skinner ; seventeenth-century scholars who devoted themselves to the study of Old... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1891 - 286 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 the Dictionary. " Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 704 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. (From Preface to Dictionary.) LETTER TO LORD CHESTERFIELD •}th February 1755. MY LORD — I have... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 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, (From Preface to Dictionary.) LETTER TO LORD CHESTERFIELD <jth February 1755. MY LORD — I have been... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 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. (From Preface to Dictionary. .) LETTER TO LORD CHESTERFIELD •jth February 1755. MY LORD — I have... | |
 | 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... | |
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