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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. "
The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and additions ... - Página 237
por James Boswell - 1822
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His ..., Volumen1

James Boswell - 1791 - 554 páginas
...therefore difmifs it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from cenfure or from praife." That this indifference was rather a temporary than...habitual feeling, appears, I think, from his letters to *75f. Mr. Warton ; and however he may have been affected for the moment, ^tatV-iS. certain it is that...
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The Poetical Works ...: With the Life of the Author

Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 páginas
...excitefl. Though we may believe him in the declaration at the £nd of his preface, that he dismissed it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise ; there cannot be a doubt but that he was highly gratified by the reputation it acquired both at home...
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are ..., Volumen1

Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 páginas
...which, if I could «tein, in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me ? 1 have protracted my werk till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and suc<'••'•••> and miscarriage are empty sounds ; I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillit/,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 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 PRINTING THE DRAMATIC WORKS •> WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Printed in the Year 1756. VV HEN...
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The Literary Magazine, and American Register, Volumen5

Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 498 páginas
...application, I cannot but have some degree of parental fondness. But in Iris conclusion he tells us, " I dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." I deny the doctor's " frigidity." This polished period exhibits an affected stoicism, which no writer...
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An Address to the British Public: On the Case of Brigadier-General Picton ...

Edward Alured Draper - 1806 - 364 páginas
...want of proper materials. I dismiss it, however, from my hands, not like that great and learned man, " with frigid " tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from '*' censure or from praise ;" but with eager hope, with anxious expectation,, with longing solicitude, that it will become popular,...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of ..., Volumen1

James Boswell - 1807 - 514 páginas
...praise of perfection, which if I could obtain in this gloom oi solitude, what would it avail me ! 1 have protracted my work till most of those whom I...have sunk into the grave; and success and miscarriage arc empty sounds. 1 therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from...
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The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine, Temas103-106

1807 - 604 páginas
...of proper materials. " 1 dismiss it, however, from my hands,' not like that great and learned man, ' with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise ;' but with eager hope, with anxious expectation, with longing solicitude, that it will become popular,...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical Illustrative of the ..., Volumen1

Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 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." More than half a. century has now elapsed since the publication of this great work, which, notwithstanding...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of ..., Volumen1

Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 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...tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or froia praise." More than half a. century has now elapsed since the publication of this great work,...
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