| Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 páginas
...ulxra their work, were obliged to change its economy, and give their second edition another form, I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection,...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... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 páginas
...upon their work, were obliged to change its economy, and give their second edition another form, I I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from... | |
| 1881 - 578 páginas
...work, were obliged to change its economy, and give their second edition another form, I may snrely I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from... | |
| James Boswell - 1884 - 742 páginas
...histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems ; whence any mean production is called Grub Street." — " Lexicographer, a. writer of dictionaries, a harmless...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... | |
| James Hay - 1884 - 400 páginas
...He makes a pathetic allusion to her death at the close of his preface. " I may surely," he says, " be contented without the praise of perfection, which,...sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are alike empty sounds." " It pleased God," says Boswell, " to grant him almost thirty years of life after... | |
| James Boswell - 1885 - 490 páginas
...in sarcasm towards others, but sometimes in playful allusion to the notions commonly entertained of his own laborious task. Thus ; " Grub-street, 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... | |
| Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 páginas
...edition another form, I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which, if I conld ogic may have an action of I respass against grammar for encroaching on her liberties, syllogisms I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1887 - 232 páginas
...without praise of perfection which, if I could obtain in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail ? I have protracted my work till most of those whom...grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having nothing to fear or hope from censure or from... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 216 páginas
.... . Johnson had lost his wife before he had finished his Dictionary. In the Preface he says : — ' I have protracted my work till most of those whom...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... | |
| James Boswell - 1888 - 608 páginas
...in sarcasm towards others, but sometimes in playful allusion to the notions commonly entertained of his own laborious task. Thus: " Grub-street, the name...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... | |
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