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 Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. - Página 83por James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 560 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| James Boswell - 1799 - 640 páginas
...thoughts which so highly distinguish that performance. ' I (says he) may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which if I could obtain in this...indifference was rather a temporary than an habitual feeling, appears, I think, from his letters to Mr. Warton" ; and however he may have been affected... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 páginas
...thoughts which so highly distinguish that performance. ' I (says he) may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which if I could obtain in this...indifference was rather a temporary than an habitual feeling, appears, I think, from his letters to Mr. Warton' ; and however he may have been affected... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 496 páginas
...thoughts which so highly distinguish that performance. " I (says he) may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which if I could obtain in this...indifference was rather a temporary than an habitual feeling, appears, I think, from his letters to Mr. Warton ; and however he may have been affected for... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 páginas
...change its ceconomy, and give their second edition another form, I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain, in...little to fear or hope from censure Or from praise. PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING THE DRAMATIC WORKS •> WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Printed in the Year 1756. VV HEN... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 páginas
...change its ceconomy, and give their second edition another form, I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain, in...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." More than half a. century has now elapsed since the publication of this great work, which, notwithstanding... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 páginas
...change its (economy, and give their second edition another form, I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain, in...tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or froia praise." More than half a. century has now elapsed since the publication of this great work,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 páginas
...change its economy, and give their second edition another form, I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain, in...protracted my work till most of those whom I wished t» please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are1 empty sounds. I therefore dismiss... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 páginas
...change its eeconomy, and give their second editiqn another form, I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain, in...have protracted my work till most of those whom I wilied to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 páginas
...change its oeconomy, and give their second edition another form, I may surely be coutented without the praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain, in...wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success andmiscarriage are empty sounds. 1 therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 páginas
...Rochester. edition another form ; I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection ; & hich if I could obtain in this gloom of solitude, * what...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." As though he had foreseen some of the circumstances which would attend this publication, he observes,... | |
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