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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. "
The Life of Samuel Johnson - Page 243
by James Boswell - 1880
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1791 - 564 pages
...therefore difmifs it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from cenfure or from praife." That this indifference was rather. a temporary than...his letters to Mr. Warton ; and however he may have been affected for the moment, certain it is that the honours which his great work procured him, both...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1791 - 554 pages
...therefore difmifs it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from cenfure or from praife." That this indifference was rather a temporary than...habitual feeling, appears, I think, from his letters to *75f. Mr. Warton ; and however he may have been affected for the moment, ^tatV-iS. certain it is that...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ...

James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...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 miscarriage...his letters to Mr. Warton ; and however he may have been affected for the moment, certain it is that the honours which his great work procured him, both...
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Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...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 miscarriage...his letters to Mr. Warton' ; and however he may have been affected for class of men who 'employed their minds in such operations as required neither celerity...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...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 miscarriage...his letters to Mr. Warton" ; and however he may have been affected for class of men who 'employed their minds in such operations as required neither celerity...
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The Poetical Works ...: With the Life of the Author

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...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pages
...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 miscarriage...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...
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The Literary Magazine, and American Register, Volume 5

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...
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An Address to the British Public: On the Case of Brigadier-General Picton ...

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,...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1807 - 514 pages
...those 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...his letters to Mr. Warton ; and however he may have been affected for the moment, certain it is that the honours which his great work procured him, both...
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