 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 520 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." More than half a. century has now elapsed since the publication of this great work, which, notwithstanding... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Historical fiction - 1809 - 210 pages
...excited. Though we may believe him in the declaration at the end 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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 524 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 froia praise." More than half a. century has now elapsed since the publication of this great work,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 pages
...wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success andmiscarriage are empty sounds. 1 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 fifteenth day of April 1755, in two vols. folio,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - Authors, English - 1815 - 660 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." As though he had foreseen some of the circumstances which would attend this publication, he observes,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 492 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 DRAMATICK WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Printed in the Year 1756. WHEN the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 514 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. F2 PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING THE • DRAMATICK WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Printed in the Year 1756.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1816 - 154 pages
...excited. Though we may believe him in the declaration at the end 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 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, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 450 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 MINTING THE DRAMATIC WORKS or WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Printed in the Ytar 1756. W HEN the... | |
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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. 
