 | 1872 - 556 pàgines
...work, were obliged to change its economy, and give their second edition another form, I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which,...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. — Preface to his Dictionary of the English Language. [DK. HUGH BLAIR. 1718 — 17 .] TASTE AND GENIUS.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 pàgines
...praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain in this gloom of solitude what would it avail me Î I have protracted my work till most of those whom...frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from cen'.ure or from praise. REFLECTIONS ON LANDING AT IONA.1 We were now treading that illustrious island... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pàgines
...thoughts which so highly distinguish that performance. 'I,' says he, ' may surely be contented without tho praise of perfection, which if I could obtain in this...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise"' That this indifference was rather a temporary than an habitual fceling, appears, I think, from his... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pàgines
...vigorous and splendid thoughts which so highly distinguish that performance. " I (says he) may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which...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 Main - 1874 - 480 pàgines
...melancholy rings out of the closing sentences of the Preface to the Dictionary. " I," says he, " may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." The spirit of his dead wife must have been haunting him once again as he wrote these words. There is... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pàgines
...melancholy rings out of the closing sentences of the Preface to the Dictionary. " I," says he, " may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." The spirit of his dead wife must have been haunting him once again as he wrote these words. There is... | |
 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 482 pàgines
..." I," says he, " may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, DICTIONARY PUBLISHED. 73 which if I could obtain in this gloom of solitude,...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." The spirit of his dead wife must have been haunting him once again as he wrote these words. There is... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 pàgines
...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. EDWAJID GIBBON. EDWAKD GIBBON, author of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was born AD 1737,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pàgines
...obliged to change its economy, and give their second edition another form, I may surely be conlented without the praise of perfection, — which if I could...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. DR. S. JOHNSON : Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language. Those who have been persuaded to... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 pàgines
...work, were obliged to change its economy, and give their second edition another form, I may surely ffinity, without any help from the heralds' office,...did us no great honour by these claims of kindred ; From the Preface to The Dictionary of the En9lish Lan9ua9e. SHAKE8PEARE. Shakespeare is, above all... | |
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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. 
