 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 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 once the luminary... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1859 - 476 pages
...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... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1858 - 494 pages
...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... | |
 | 1859 - 578 pages
...not want it.' ' I have protracted my work,' he said in the second, ' till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and...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... | |
 | 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
...want it.' ' I • hare protracted my. work,' he said in the second, ' till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and...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... | |
 | 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
...not want it/ ' I hare protracted my work,' he said in the second, ' till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and...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... | |
 | 1859 - 650 pages
...not want it.' ' I have protracted my work,' he said in the second, ' till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 570 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
