| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 páginas
...please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it ventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations frnm the blue bed to the brown From the Preface to The Dictionary of the En9lish Lan9ua9e. SHAKE8PEARE. Shakespeare is, above all... | |
| Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 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. Prefaca to Dictionary. Influence of Meditation. The great task of him who conducts his life by the... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 páginas
...please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it one DR. S. JOIINSOX: Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language. Those who have been persuaded to... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1881 - 604 páginas
...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... | |
| 1881 - 578 páginas
...please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it WILLIAM COWPEE* BORN 1731 : DIED 1800. (From the Connoisseur.) THE TALENT OF SECRECY. Leaky at bottom... | |
| James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 páginas
...have sunk into the grave, and success aud miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it wi:h frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. " The publication of this dictionary," says Mr. Worcester, " formed a greater era in the history of... | |
| James Boswell - 1884 - 742 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." Whether any such step was taken, Sir Francis Doyle was not able to discover : probably not ; but Johnson,... | |
| James Macaulay - 1884 - 172 páginas
...please have sunk into the grave, and success or miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." WE must refrain from multiplying quotations, but there is scarcely a page of Johnson's writings from... | |
| Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 páginas
...please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it have heard concerning Mr Bust, that worthy late schoolmaster of Eton, who would nev WILLIAM COWPEE.* BOEN 1731: DIED 1800. (From the Connoisseur.) THE TALENT OP SECRECY. Leaky at bottom... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 216 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.' — Works, v. 51. His mother was on her death-bed when he began Rasselas, and he had no one left to... | |
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