 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 Works of Samuel Johnson - Page 67by Samuel Johnson - 1816Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 374 pages
...difmifs it with frigid Tranquility, having little \v fear or hope from Cenfure or from Praife. • PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING THE DRAMATICK WORKS OF WILLIAM...SHAKESPEARE. Printed in the Year 1756. WHEN the Works of Shakefpeare are, after fo many Editions, again offered to the Publick, it will doubtlefs be enquired,... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...this gloom of 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...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 - 1799 - 648 pages
...this gloom of 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...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 - 1799 - 496 pages
...this gloom of 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 454 pages
...therefore difmifs it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from cenfure or from praife. PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING THE DRAMATICK WORKS OF WILLIAM...SHAKESPEARE. Printed in the Year 1756. WHEN the works of Shakefpeare are, after fb many editions, again offered to the Publick, it will doubtlefs be inquired,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1805 - 238 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...this gloom of 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...censure Or from praise. PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING THE DRAMATIC WORKS •> WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Printed in the Year 1756. VV HEN the works of Shakespeare... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1806 - 498 pages
...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... | |
 | Edward Alured Draper - Trinidad - 1806 - 364 pages
...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,... | |
 | English literature - 1807 - 604 pages
...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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