 | James Boswell - Biography - 1846 - 602 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 hope from censure or from... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 1798 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... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 374 pages
...have already seen (ante. Vol. I. p, 31.) the probable moti re of the attack on the Exdse. — CHOKER. praise of perfection, which if I could obtain in this...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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1851 - 192 pages
...obliged to change its economy, and give their second edition another form, I ma}- surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which if I could...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. 35. Burke on the House of Commons ; from his " Thoughts on the Causes of the Present Discontents:"... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...the praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail met o has added to the delight of millions, and to the glory of English literature. Henceforward the [Reflection* on Landing at lona.'} [From the ' Journey to the Weitem Ides.1] We were now treading that... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1853 - 594 pages
...be contented without the praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain, in this gloom of Rolitude, what would it avail me ? I have protracted my work...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." The deep tone of sorrow that marks the closing sentences of this elegant and forcible address to the... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1853 - 588 pages
...he contented without the praise of perfection, which, if I could ohtain, in this gloom of solitnde, what would it avail me ? I have protracted my work...frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from ceusure or from praise." The deep tone of sorrow that marks the closing sentenees of this elegant and... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 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...sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are emptv* sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 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. REFLECTIONS OX LANDING AT IOXA. 1 We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...obliged to change its economy, and give their second edition another form, I may surely he contented without the praise of perfection, which, if I could...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. REFLECTIONS ON LANDING AT IONA.1 We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary... | |
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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. 
