...drudge." * At the time when he was concluding his very eloquent Preface, Johnson's mind appears to huve been in such a state of depression, that wo cannot...temporary than an habitual feeling, appears, I think, from hi« letters to Mr. Warton ; and however he may have been affected for the moment, certain it is that...

...folio, published in 1755. This contains the preface in which he concludes with the well known words : " I have protracted my work till most of those whom...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." The first volume has a fine portrait of the great lexicographer, one of the earliest ever published...

...upon their work, were obliged to change its economy, 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. REFLECTIONS ON LANDING AT IONA. 1 We were now treading that illustrious island which was onco the luminary...

...upon their work, were obliged to change its economy, 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. 214. FROM 'THE RAMBLER.' THE RIGHT IMPROVEMENT OF TIME. It is usual for those who are advised to the...

...irritable, and awkward Johnson closes the Preface to his Dictionary with a sentence of pathetic beauty : " I have protracted my work till most of those whom...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." This morbid apathy, the expression of which is probably a little exaggerated, was never known to Mr....

...upon their work, were obliged to change its economy, and give their second edition another form, I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection,...with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hoj e from censur-i or from praise. RKFLKCTIONS ON LANDING AT IONA.1 We were now treading that illustrious...

...fully displayed, I have only failed in an attempt which no human power has hitherto completed. ... I have protracted my work till most of those whom...with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hone from censure or from praise " In April, 1755, as we have said, the great work which had been finished...

...praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me 1 I have protracted my work till most of those whom...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. -1"' ''/... 1MJ L- ) THE HAMLET. 'T'HE hinds how blest, who ne'er beguiled To quit their hamlet's hawthorn-wild,...

...upon their work, were obliged to change its economy, 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. 1. Eagerness: eager originally meant sharp, bitter, being indeed the Lat. acer, derived through the...

...upon their work, were obliged to change its economy, 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. David Hume: 1711-1776. The Middle Station of Life. We may remark of the middle station of life, that...