 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 - Pagina 243door James Boswell - 1880Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1859 - 584 pagina’s
...• hare protracted my. work,' he said in the second, ' till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage...tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or praise.' One of the departed friends whom he had wished to please was Edward Cave. Johnson had been... | |
 | 1859 - 578 pagina’s
...it.' ' I have protracted my work,' he said in the second, ' till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage...tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or praise.' One of the departed friends whom he had wished to please was Edward Cave. Johnson had been... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 pagina’s
...it/ ' I hare protracted my work,' he said in the second, ' till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage...tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or praise.' One of the departed friends whom he had wished to please was Edward Cave. Johnson had been... | |
 | 1859 - 650 pagina’s
...it.' ' I have protracted my work,' he said in the second, ' till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage...frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from cc-nBure or praise.' One of the departed friends whom he had wished to please was Edward Cave. Johnson... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 490 pagina’s
...application, T cannot but have some degree of parental fondness." But in his 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 496 pagina’s
..." 29th NOy. 1755. " W. MURRAY. " have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave ; and success and miscarriage...his letters to Mr. Warton ; and however he may have been affected for the moment, certain it is that the honours which his great work procured him, both... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pagina’s
...solitude, what would it avail me ? I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave ; and success and miscarriage...his letters to Mr. Warton ; and however he may have been affected for the moment, certain it is that the honours which his great work procured him, both... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 pagina’s
...solitude, what would it avail me? I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave ; and success and miscarriage...temporary than an habitual feeling, appears, I think, from hi« letters to Mr. Warton ; and however he may have been affected for the moment, certain it is that... | |
 | James Wynne - 1860 - 532 pagina’s
...with the well known words : " I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." The first volume has a fine portrait of the great lexicographer, one of the earliest ever published... | |
 | Gordon Willoughby James Gyll - 1860 - 412 pagina’s
...others soon their place resigned Or disappeared, and left theirs/ behind. Pope's Temple of Fame. 157 therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. All ingenuous critics, however, admit it to be one of the most stupendous literary accomplishments... | |
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