 | James Boswell - 1822 - 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." That this indifference was rather a temporary than an habitual feeling, appears, I think, from his... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 508 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 - 1823 - 484 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 prais'e. I? 2 PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING THE DRAMATICK WORKS OF 'WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Printed in the Year 1756. WHEN... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1823 - 266 pages
...received, will matter little to him. In the words of a great moralist he can say, that he dismisses it with tranquillity, having "little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." . THE END. JGBARNARD, Mixiur Stria, ... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 476 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 ''. e Dr. Johnson's Dictionary was published on the fifieenth day of April 1755, ia two vols. folio,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...wished to please, have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage arc empty sounds : I, therefore, dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise1. f Dr. Johnson's Dictionary was published on the fifteenth day of April 1755, \ in two vols.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 500 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 praise8. " Dr. Johnson's Dictionary was published on the fifteenth day of April 1755, in two vols.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 750 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 cenh'jre or from praise. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FOURTH EDITION OF THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY. Млхт arc... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 440 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 - Authors, English - 1827 - 622 pages
...wished to please have sunk into the grave ; and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore ntioned, he told us, " Cave used to sell ten thousand of 'The Gentleman's Magazine ; yet such wa That this indifference was rather a temporary than an habitual feeling, appears, I think, from his... | |
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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. 
