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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 Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine - Página 62
1807
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Our Common Speech: Six Papers on Topics Connected with the Proper Use of the ...

Gilbert Milligan Tucker - 1895 - 258 páginas
...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." With all its faults, Johnson's dictionary was a work of entirely unprecedented excellence. Beside coming...
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Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - 136 páginas
...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." 21 30. Teutonic language. The Teutonic languages are those spoken by the Teutonic or German races,...
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From Grave to Gay: Being Essays and Studies Concerned with Certain Subjects ...

John St. Loe Strachey - 1897 - 356 páginas
...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. Of course, Johnson did not always write like this. Too often the exquisite melody of such a phrase...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson ...: To which is Added The Journal of a ..., Volumen2

James Boswell - 1900 - 928 páginas
...please have sunk into the grave ; and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it ation. I defend my criticism in the same manner with you. We must confess the That this indifference was rather a temporary than an habitual feeling, appears, I think, from his...
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Non Sequitur

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge - 1900 - 232 páginas
...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 great lexicographer chose words as well as he defined them. " Sir," says he to Sir Joshua Reynolds,...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L. D.: Together with a Journal of a ..., Volumen1

James Boswell - 1900 - 638 páginas
...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." That this indifference was rather a temporary than an habitual feeling, appears, I think, from his...
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A History of English Literature and of the Chief English Writers: Founded on ...

Alexander Hamilton Thompson, Thomas Budd Shaw - 1901 - 862 páginas
...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." § 3. During the years devoted to the Dictionary Johnson sought diversion from time to time in other...
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Essays from the Rambler and the Idler, with Passages from the Lives of the ...

Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 páginas
...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. ) I Lives of the Poets ., Lives of the Poets. MILTON AS A SCHOOLMASTER. HE now hired a lodging at the...
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Some XVIII Century Men of Letters: Biographical Essays, Volumen2

Whitwell Elwin - 1902 - 616 páginas
...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 praise."2 One of the departed friends whom he had wished to please was Edward Cave. Johnson had been...
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Books and the Man

John T. Winterich - 1929 - 430 páginas
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