 | James Wynne - Libraries - 1860 - 498 pages
...folio, published in 1755. This contains the preface in which he concludes with the well known words : " I have protracted my work till most of those whom...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... | |
 | Gordon Willoughby James Gyll - Language and languages - 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
...surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain in this gloom of solitude what would it avail me ? I have protracted my work...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
...be contented without the praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me ? I have protracted my work...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
...irritable, and awkward Johnson closes the Preface to his Dictionary with a sentence of pathetic beauty : " I have protracted my work till most of those whom...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
...irritable, and awkward Joluison closes the Preface to his Dictionary with a sentence of pathetic beauty : " I have protracted my work till most of those whom...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain in this gloom of solitude what would it avail me? I have protracted my work...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... | |
 | 1865 - 496 pages
...fully displayed, I have only failed in an attempt which no human power has hitherto completed. ... I have protracted my work till most of those whom...with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hone from censure or from praise " In April, 1755, as we have said, the great work which had been finished... | |
 | Great Britain - 1865 - 980 pages
...fully displayed, I have only failed in an attempt which no human power hat hitherto completed. ... I have protracted my work till most of those whom...have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage an •mpty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hone from... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors - 1865 - 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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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. 
