 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 pages
...excitefl. Though we may believe him in the declaration at the £nd of his preface, that he dismissed it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise ; there cannot be a doubt but that he was highly gratified by the reputation it acquired both at home... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pages
...me? 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...little to fear or hope from censure Or from praise. PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING THE DRAMATIC WORKS •> WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Printed in the Year 1756. VV HEN... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 498 pages
...application, I cannot but have some degree of parental fondness. But in Iris conclusion he tells us, " I dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." I deny the doctor's " frigidity." This polished period exhibits an affected stoicism, which no writer... | |
 | Edward Alured Draper - 1806 - 364 pages
...want of proper materials. I dismiss it, however, from my hands, not like that great and learned man, " with frigid " tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from '*' censure or from praise ;" but with eager hope, with anxious expectation,, with longing solicitude, that it will become popular,... | |
 | 1807 - 604 pages
...of proper materials. " 1 dismiss it, however, from my hands,' not like that great and learned man, ' with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise ;' but with eager hope, with anxious expectation, with longing solicitude, that it will become popular,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 pages
...me ? I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wilied to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." More than half a century has now elapsed since the publication of this great work, which, notwithstanding... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pages
...me ? 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...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." More than half a. century has now elapsed since the publication of this great work, which, notwithstanding... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 pages
...me ? 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...tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or froia praise." More than half a. century has now elapsed since the publication of this great work,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...till most of those whom I wished t» please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are1 empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity,...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.* * Dr. Johnson's Dictionary was published on the 15th. day of April, 1755, in two ^vols. folio, price... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 210 pages
...excited. Though we may believe him in the declaration at the end of his preface, that he dismissed it with frigid" tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise , there cannot be a doubt but that he was highly gratified by the reputation it acquired both at home... | |
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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. 
