 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pages
...work, were obliged to change its ceconomy, 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. PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING THE DRAMATIC WORKS •> WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Printed in the Year 1756. VV HEN... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pages
...work, were obliged to change its ceconomy, 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." More than half a. century has now elapsed since the publication of this great work, which, notwithstanding... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 pages
...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,...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 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 pages
...obliged to change its oeconomy, and give their second edition another form, I may surely be coutented without the praise of perfection, which, if I could...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 pages
...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 514 pages
...work, were obliged to change its oeconomy, 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. F2 PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING THE • DRAMATICK WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Printed in the Year 1756.... | |
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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. 
