 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are alike empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. Letter to Lard Chesterfield. February 7, 1755. My Lord— I have been lately informed by the proprietor... | |
 | James Boswell - Biography - 1846 - 602 pages
...wished to please have sunk into the grave; and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. 1 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 - Authors, English - 1848 - 374 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 - 1848 - 1798 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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1851 - 192 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. 35. Burke on the House of Commons ; from his " Thoughts on the Causes of the Present Discontents:"... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1853 - 510 pages
...this work with so much application, I cannot hut have some degree of parental fondness." But, in his conclusion, he tells us, " I dismiss it with frigid...deny the doctor's " frigidity." This polished period exhihits an affected stoicism, which no writer ever felt for the anxious lahour of a great portion... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1853 - 594 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 deep tone of sorrow that marks the closing sentences of this elegant and forcible address to the... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1853 - 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 ceusure or from praise." The deep tone of sorrow that marks the closing sentenees of this elegant and... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 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. REFLECTIONS OX LANDING AT IOXA. 1 We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 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 censure or from praise. REFLECTIONS ON LANDING AT IONA.1 We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary... | |
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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. 
