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The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and additions ... - Page 237
by James Boswell - 1822
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Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and ...

Abraham Hayward - 1859 - 476 pages
...come into full play and still further reduced the business of Westminster Hall.) when " all he had wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds." What is to ensure him even the few occasional briefs which are absolutely necessary to enable him to...
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Sidney Smith. Samuel Rogers. James Smith. George Selwyn. Lord Chesterfield ...

Abraham Hayward - 1858 - 470 pages
...come into full play and still further reduced the business of Westminster Hall.) when " all he had wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds." What is to ensure him even the few occasional briefs which are absolutely necessary to enable him to...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 105

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 - 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...
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Quarterly Review, Volume 105

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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 105

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 - 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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 105

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 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...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volumes 105-106

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...
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Calamities and Quarrels of Authors

Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 570 pages
...for, as our great lexicographer exclaimed, " In this gloom of solitude I have protracted my work, till those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds;" but, if it be applauded in his own, that praise has come too late for him whose literary labour has...
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The Calamities and Quarrels of Authors: With Some Inquiries Respecting Their ...

Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 572 pages
...for, as our great lexicographer exclaimed, " In this gloom of solitude I have protracted my work, till those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds;" but, if it be applauded in his own, that praise has come too late for him whose literary labour has...
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The Literary Character: Or, The History of Men of Genius, Drawn from Their ...

Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 490 pages
...application, T cannot but have some degree of parental fondness." But in his 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...
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