 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 páginas
...surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which if I could obtain in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me ? I have protracted my work...feeling, appears, I think, from his letters to Mr. VVaiton ; and however he may have been ufTected for the moment, certain it is that the honours which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 páginas
...contented without the praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain, in this gloom of si il i tude, what would it avail me ? I have protracted my work...are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquility, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise*. * Dr. Johnson's Dictionary... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 450 páginas
...be contented without the praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain, in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me? I have protracted my work...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. PROPOSALS FOR MINTING THE DRAMATIC WORKS or WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Printed in the Ytar 1756. W HEN the... | |
 | Benjamin Silliman - 1820 - 328 páginas
...what satisfaction I received the welcome of the friends whom I met. As I have not, like- Johnson, " protracted my work, till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave,'1 I cannot say, like him, that I " dismiss it with frigid tranfjuility." On the contrary, while... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 398 páginas
...surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which if I could obtain in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me? I have protracted my work...frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope with' the help of factiousjcredulity, have been brought into question, by the two lowest of all human... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 394 páginas
...surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which if I could obtain in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me? I have protracted my work...frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope with'the help of factious credulity, have been brought into question, by the two lowest of all human... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 páginas
...be contented without the praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain, in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me ? I have protracted my work...little to fear or hope from censure or from prais'e. I? 2 PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING THE DRAMATICK WORKS OF 'WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Printed in the Year 1756.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 432 páginas
...be contented without the praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain, in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me? I have protracted my work till most of those whom 1 wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds : I therefore... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1823 - 266 páginas
...received, will matter little to him. In the words of a great moralist he can say, that he dismisses it with tranquillity, having "little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." . THE END. JGBARNARD, Mixiur Stria, ... | |
 | 1824 - 706 páginas
...that might approve, And none are left to please, when none are left to love. Childc Наг. с. 2. I have protracted my work till most of those whom...frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope ftom censure or from praise. Pref. to Johnton't Diet. Her dark eyes flashing thro' their tears, Uke... | |
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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. 
