 | James Macaulay - Biography & Autobiography - 1884 - 172 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." WE must refrain from multiplying quotations, but there is scarcely a page of Johnson's writings from... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Fiction - 1887 - 216 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.' — Works, v. 51. His mother was on her death-bed when he began Rasselas, and he had no one left to... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore e of what I have heard concerning Mr Bust, that worthy late schoolmaster of Eton, who would nev WILLIAM COWPEE.* BOEN 1731: DIED 1800. (From the Connoisseur.) THE TALENT OP SECRECY. Leaky at bottom... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 598 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 praise2.' That this indifference was rather a temporary than an habitual feeling, appears, I think,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 566 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 - English literature - 1890 - 568 pages
...wished to please have sunk into the grave ; and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore J R R FPM L P N N That this indifference was rather a temporary than an habitual feeling, appears, I think, from his... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1891 - 72 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. P. 75. Junius and Skinner ; seventeenth-century scholars who devoted themselves to the study of Old... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1891 - 286 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 the Dictionary. " Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1891 - 228 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. P. 75. Junius and Skinner; seventeenth-century scholars who devoted themselves• to the study of Old... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 704 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. (From Preface to Dictionary.) LETTER TO LORD CHESTERFIELD •}th February 1755. MY LORD — I have... | |
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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. 
