 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...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." That this indifference was rather a temporary than an habitual feeling, appears, I think, from his... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...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'.' That this indifference was rather a temporary than an habitual feeling, appears, I think, from his... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...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'.' That this indifference was rather a temporary than an habitual feeling, appears, I think, from his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 pages
...excitefl. Though we may believe him in the declaration at the £nd 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 was highly gratified by the reputation it acquired both at home... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pages
...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. PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING THE DRAMATIC WORKS •> WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Printed in the Year 1756. VV HEN... | |
 | Edward Alured Draper - 1806 - 364 pages
...want of proper materials. I dismiss it, however, from my hands, not like that great and learned man, " with frigid " tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from '*' censure or from praise ;" but with eager hope, with anxious expectation,, with longing solicitude, that it will become popular,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 pages
...wished to 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." That this indifference was rather a temporary than an habitual feeling, appears, I think, from his... | |
 | 1807 - 604 pages
...of proper materials. " 1 dismiss it, however, from my hands,' not like that great and learned man, ' with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise ;' but with eager hope, with anxious expectation, with longing solicitude, that it will become popular,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 pages
...wilied 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." More than half a century has now elapsed since the publication of this great work, which, notwithstanding... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...wished t» please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are1 empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.* * Dr. Johnson's Dictionary was published on the 15th. day of April, 1755, in two ^vols. folio, price... | |
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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. 
