 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1928 - 500 páginas
...author of Doctor Johnson's famous phrase in dismissing the book from hií hands after his labors, '. . . with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.' 478 HUSBAND AND WIFE— INTERNATIONAL LAW юна! law as it stood, which justification ; founded on... | |
 | 1927 - 878 páginas
...sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss the book uith frigid tranquillity — having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.' II In this brief paper I shall not attempt to conceal the fact that I regard the present great esteem... | |
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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. 
