 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 572 pages
...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... | |
 | James Wynne - 1860 - 498 pages
...concludes with the well known words : " I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and...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 - 1860 - 496 pages
...information. " 29th NOy. 1755. " W. MURRAY. " have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave ; and success and...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 Boswell - 1860 - 960 pages
...gloom of solitude, what would it avail me ? I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished approaching to the gigantic, and grown unwieldy from...somewhat disfigured by the scars of that evil, which, it That this indifference was rather a temporary than an habitual feeling, appears, I think, from his... | |
 | Gordon Willoughby James Gyll - 1860 - 412 pages
...others soon their place resigned Or disappeared, and left theirs/ behind. Pope's Temple of Fame. 157 therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. All ingenuous critics, however, admit it to be one of the most stupendous literary accomplishments... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...gloom of solitude what would it avail me ? I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. REFLECTIONS ON LANDING AT IONA. 1 We were now treading that illustrious island which was onco the luminary... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...gloom of solitude, what would it avail me ? I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. 214. FROM 'THE RAMBLER.' THE RIGHT IMPROVEMENT OF TIME. It is usual for those who are advised to the... | |
 | The North American Review.VOL.XCVIII - 1864 - 654 pages
...Dictionary with a sentence of pathetic beauty : " I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." This morbid apathy, the expression of which is probably a little exaggerated, was never known to Mr.... | |
 | 1864 - 656 pages
...whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage arc empty sounds ; 1 therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." This morbid apathy, the expression of which is probably a little exaggerated, was never known to Mr.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...gloom of solitude what would it avail me? I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and...with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hoj e from censur-i or from praise. RKFLKCTIONS ON LANDING AT IONA.1 We were now treading that illustrious... | |
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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. 
