...this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me ? I have protracted my work till most of those whom J wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING THE DRAMATICK WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Printed in the Year 1756. WHEN the...

...time when he was concluding his very eloquent Preface, Johnson's mind appears to have been in such ц state of depression, that we cannot contemplate without...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...

...contented without the praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain, in this gloom of si il i tude, what would it avail me ? I have protracted my work...are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquility, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise*. * Dr. Johnson's Dictionary...

...upon their work, were obliged to change its ceconomy, and give their second edition another form, I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection,...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. PROPOSALS FOR MINTING THE DRAMATIC WORKS or WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Printed in the Ytar 1756. W HEN the...

...the vigorons and splendid thoughts which so highly distinguish that performance. " I (says he) muy surely be contented without the praise of perfection,...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...

...telling that it meant ' one who deserts to the enemy, a revolter,' I added, Sometimes ue say a GOWER. Thus it went to the press : but the printer had more...frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope with' the help of factiousjcredulity, have been brought into question, by the two lowest of all human...

...telling that it meant ' one who deserts to the enemy, a revolter,' I added, Sometimes vce say a GOWER. Thus it went to the press : but the printer had more...frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope with'the help of factious credulity, have been brought into question, by the two lowest of all human...

...were Mr. John Oldmixon, and George Ducket, Esq. At the time when he was concluding his very elo quent Preface, Johnson's mind appears to have been in such...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...

...surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which if I could obtain in this gloom of soKtude, what would it avail me ? I have protracted my work...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...

...upon their work, were obliged to change its ceconomy, and give their second edition another form, I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection,...little to fear or hope from censure or from prais'e. I? 2 PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING THE DRAMATICK WORKS OF 'WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Printed in the Year 1756....