 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 oldal
...obliged to change its economy, and give their second edition another form, I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which, if I could...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 oldal
...obliged to change its economy, and give their second edition another form, I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which, if I could...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 oldal
...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 oldal
...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 - 1865 - 784 oldal
...obliged to change its economy, and give their second edition another form, I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which, if I could...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 oldal
...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... | |
 | 1865 - 980 oldal
...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... | |
 | Leland A. Webster - 1866 - 372 oldal
...protracted my work until most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave ; and success or miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss...little to fear or hope, from censure or from praise." Not less has the laborer, who has toiled so long in this unre* Dr. Johnson. quited and unappreciated... | |
 | Book - 1868 - 168 oldal
...praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me 1 I have protracted my work till most of those whom...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. -1"' ''/... 1MJ L- ) THE HAMLET. 'T'HE hinds how blest, who ne'er beguiled To quit their hamlet's hawthorn-wild,... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 oldal
...obliged to change its economy, and give their second edition another form, I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which, if I could...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. 1. Eagerness: eager originally meant sharp, bitter, being indeed the Lat. acer, derived through the... | |
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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. 
