 | English literature - 1874 - 274 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. EDWAJID GIBBON. EDWAKD GIBBON, author of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was born AD 1737,... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 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 spirit of his dead wife must have been haunting him once again as he wrote these words. There is... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 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. DR. S. JOHNSON : Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language. Those who have been persuaded to... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 582 pages
...to please have «unk into the grave, and success and mis'•rirriajre are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. From the Preface to The Dictionary of the Englixh Language. SHAKESPEARE. Shakespeare is, above all... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 576 pages
...wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations frnm the blue bed to the brown From the Preface to The Dictionary of the En9lish Lan9ua9e. SHAKE8PEARE. Shakespeare is, above all... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 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. DR. S. JOIINSOX: Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language. Those who have been persuaded to... | |
 | Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 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. Prefaca to Dictionary. Influence of Meditation. The great task of him who conducts his life by the... | |
 | English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore WILLIAM COWPEE* BORN 1731 : DIED 1800. (From the Connoisseur.) THE TALENT OF SECRECY. Leaky at bottom... | |
 | James Baldwin - English language - 1883 - 612 pages
...have sunk into the grave, and success aud miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it wi:h frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. " The publication of this dictionary," says Mr. Worcester, " formed a greater era in the history of... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 742 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." Whether any such step was taken, Sir Francis Doyle was not able to discover : probably not ; but Johnson,... | |
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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. 
