 | James Boswell - 1827 - 576 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 praiáe." That this indifference was rather a temporary than an habitual feeling, appears, I think,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 604 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 - 1831 - 600 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 - 1831 - 602 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 - 1833 - 1182 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 thereof, or any and which of them by information, or how otherwise ? " I am of opinion that... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 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... | |
 | 1838 - 1050 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 TO highly gratified by the reputation it acquired both at home... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 528 pages
...this work with so much application, I cannot but have some degree of parental fondness." But, in his conclusion, he tells us, " I dismiss it with frigid...or from praise." I deny the doctor's " frigidity." ТЫ» polished period exhibits an affected stnici*m, which no writer ever felt for the auxiou« labour... | |
 | 1841 - 588 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." W. MIGHT AGAINST RIGHT. A ROMANCE OF THE TYROLESE WAB. BY THE How. E. PHIPPS. CHAP. VII. THUS far had... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. 1 therefore [Reflections on Landing at lona.] [From the * Journey to the Western Isles.1] We were now treading... | |
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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. 
