 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 604 pages
...splendid thoughts which so highly distinguish that performance. " I (says he) may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which if I could...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... | |
 | David Booth - English language - 1831 - 366 pages
...to fear or to hope from censure or from praise, with frigid tranquillity, I therefore dismiss it.' ' I have protracted my work till most of those whom...with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or to hope from censure or from praise.' Other arrangements of these phrases might be formed, or even... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...splendid thoughts which so highly distinguish that performance. " I (says he) may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which if I could...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." That this thereof, or any and which of them by information, or how otherwise ? " I am of opinion that... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 pages
...probable motive of the attack on the Excise. — CHOKER. praise of perfection, which if I could ohtain in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me...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 - 1835 - 604 pages
...splendid thoughts which so highly distinguish that performance. "I (says he) may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which if I could...grave; and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. 1 therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hojie from censure or from... | |
 | Sir John William Kaye - 1836 - 1050 pages
...them, ' I may surely be contented,' saith he, speaking of the probable failure of his great work, ' without the praise of perfection, which, if I could...wished to please have sunk into the grave,' " — and Everard buried his face in his hand, apparently overwhelmed by the memory of the great misfortune that... | |
 | 1841 - 588 pages
...obliged to change its economy, and give their second edition another form, I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which if I could...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." W. MIGHT AGAINST RIGHT. A ROMANCE OF THE TYROLESE WAB. BY THE How. E. PHIPPS. CHAP. VII. THUS far had... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...obliged to change its economy, and give their second edition another form, I may surely be contented dly glittered here and there The gems entangled in...friendships : — Alas ! they had been friends in yout 1 therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me I 1 , Ye [Reflection» on Landing at lona.'] [From the ' Journey to the Western Isles.'] We were now treading... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me TI have protracted my work till most of those whom I...sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are alike empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope... | |
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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. 
