 | The North American Review.VOL.XCVIII - 1864 - 654 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." This morbid apathy, the expression of which is probably a little exaggerated, was never known to Mr.... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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. 214. FROM 'THE RAMBLER.' THE RIGHT IMPROVEMENT OF TIME. It is usual for those who are advised to the... | |
 | Leland A. Webster - Sociology - 1866 - 372 pages
...wished to please have sunk into the grave ; and success or miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope, from censure or from praise." Not less has the laborer, who has toiled so long in this unre* Dr. Johnson. quited and unappreciated... | |
 | Book - English literature - 1868 - 168 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. -1"' ''/... 1MJ L- ) THE HAMLET. 'T'HE hinds how blest, who ne'er beguiled To quit their hamlet's hawthorn-wild,... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 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. 1. Eagerness: eager originally meant sharp, bitter, being indeed the Lat. acer, derived through the... | |
 | Class-book - Literature - 1869 - 344 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. David Hume: 1711-1776. The Middle Station of Life. We may remark of the middle station of life, that... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - American literature - 1872 - 658 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. THE VOYAGE OF LIFE. "LIFE," says Seneca, "is a voyage, in the progress of which we are perpetually... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 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. — Preface to his Dictionary of the English Language. [DK. HUGH BLAIR. 1718 — 17 .] TASTE AND GENIUS.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1872 - 786 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 cen'.ure or from praise. REFLECTIONS ON LANDING AT IONA.1 We were now treading that illustrious island... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 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... | |
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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. 
