 | Class-book - Literature - 1869 - 344 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. David Hume: 1711-1776. The Middle Station of Life. We may remark of the middle station of life, that... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 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. — Preface to his Dictionary of the English Language. [DK. HUGH BLAIR. 1718 — 17 .] TASTE AND GENIUS.... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - American literature - 1872 - 658 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. THE VOYAGE OF LIFE. "LIFE," says Seneca, "is a voyage, in the progress of which we are perpetually... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1872 - 786 pages
...praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain in this gloom of solitude what would it avail me Î I have protracted my work till most of those whom...frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from cen'.ure or from praise. REFLECTIONS ON LANDING AT IONA.1 We were now treading that illustrious island... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pages
...thoughts which so highly distinguish that performance. 'I,' says he, ' may surely be contented without tho 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 fceling, appears, I think, from his... | |
 | Alexander Main - Literary Criticism - 1874 - 480 pages
...of the closing sentences of the Preface to the Dictionary. " 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." The spirit of his dead wife must have been haunting him once again as he wrote these words. There is... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 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...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... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pages
...of the closing sentences of the Preface to the Dictionary. " 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." The spirit of his dead wife must have been haunting him once again as he wrote these words. There is... | |
 | Alexander Main - Literary Criticism - 1874 - 482 pages
..." I," says he, " may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, DICTIONARY PUBLISHED. 73 which if I could obtain in this gloom of solitude,...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." The spirit of his dead wife must have been haunting him once again as he wrote these words. There is... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...praise of perfection, which if I could obtain, in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me 1 I have protracted my work till most of those whom...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. EDWAJID GIBBON. EDWAKD GIBBON, author of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was born AD 1737,... | |
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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. 
