 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 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, (From Preface to Dictionary.) LETTER TO LORD CHESTERFIELD <jth February 1755. MY LORD — I have been... | |
 | Gilbert Milligan Tucker - Americanisms - 1895 - 258 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." With all its faults, Johnson's dictionary was a work of entirely unprecedented excellence. Beside coming... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 670 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 •jth February 1755. MY LORD — I have... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - 136 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." 21 30. Teutonic language. The Teutonic languages are those spoken by the Teutonic or German races,... | |
 | John St. Loe Strachey - Puritans - 1897 - 356 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. Of course, Johnson did not always write like this. Too often the exquisite melody of such a phrase... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1900 - 928 pages
...wished to please have sunk into the grave ; and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore your approbation. I defend my criticism in the same manner with you. We must confess the That this indifference was rather a temporary than an habitual feeling, appears, I think, from his... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge - 1900 - 232 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 great lexicographer chose words as well as he defined them. " Sir," says he to Sir Joshua Reynolds,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 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... | |
 | Bar associations - 1928 - 500 pages
...author of Doctor Johnson's famous phrase in dismissing the book from hií hands after his labors, '. . . with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.' 478 HUSBAND AND WIFE— INTERNATIONAL LAW юна! law as it stood, which justification ; founded on... | |
 | American essays - 1927 - 878 pages
...sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss the book uith frigid tranquillity — having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.' II In this brief paper I shall not attempt to conceal the fact that I regard the present great esteem... | |
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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. 
