 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1858 - 638 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...frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from ceusure or from praise." The deep tone of sorrow that marks the closing sentences of this elegant and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1858 - 482 pages
...do not, to threaten him with an information. " 29th Nov. 1755. " W. MCRRAI-." FOREIGN HONOURS. 243 have protracted my work till most of those whom I...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... | |
 | 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 - English literature - 1859 - 584 pages
...it, till I am known and do not want it.' ' I • hare protracted my. work,' he said in the second, ' till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk...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... | |
 | English literature - 1859 - 578 pages
...impart it, till I am known and do not want it.' ' I have protracted my work,' he said in the second, ' till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk...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 - English literature - 1859 - 750 pages
...impart it, till I am known and do not want it/ ' I hare protracted my work,' he said in the second, ' till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk...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 - English literature - 1859 - 750 pages
...impart it, till I am known and do not want it/ ' I have protracted my work,' he said in the second, ' till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk...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 pages
...impart it, till I am known and do not want it.' ' I have protracted my work,' he said in the second, ' till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk...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... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1860 - 960 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 Wynne - Libraries - 1860 - 498 pages
...folio, published in 1755. This contains the preface in which he concludes with the well known words : " I have protracted my work till most of those whom...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... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1860 - 496 pages
...definition ; and, in case he do not, to threaten him with an information. " 29th NOy. 1755. " W. MURRAY. " have protracted my work till most of those whom I...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... | |
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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. 
