 | Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 528 strani
...for, as our great lexicographer exclaimed, " In this gloom of solitude I have protracted my work, till those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds ; " but, if it be applauded in his own, that praise has come too late for him whose literary labour... | |
 | 1841 - 588 strani
...the praise of perfection, which if I could obtain in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me ? I have protracted my work till most of those whom...with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." W. MIGHT AGAINST RIGHT. A ROMANCE OF THE TYROLESE WAB. BY THE How.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 strani
...praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me I 1 , Ye hope from censure or from praise. [Reflection» on Landing at lona.'] [From the ' Journey to the Western... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 strani
...praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me ? hly clad as she — Beautiful exceedingly ! A finer...friendships : — Alas ! they had been friends in yout 1 therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 strani
...praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me TI have protracted my work till most of those whom I...sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are alike empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1845 - 618 strani
...have been deteriorated by disuse, and his spirit is broken by disappointment — when ' all he had wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds.' What is to ensure him even the few occasional briefs which are absolutely necessary to enable him to... | |
 | 1845 - 678 strani
...have been deteriorated by disuse, and his spirit is broken by disappointment — :when ' all he had wished to please have sunk into ' the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds.' What is to ensure him even the few occasional briefs which are absolutely necessary to enable him to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 strani
...the praise of perfection, which if I could obtain in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me? I have protracted my work till most of those whom...grave; and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. 1 therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 strani
...the praise of perfection, which if I could obtain in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me? I have protracted my work till most of those whom...with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. " That this indifference was rather a temporary than an habitual... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 strani
...CHOKER. praise of perfection, which if I could obtain in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me ? I have protracted my work till most of those whom...with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." That this indifference was rather a temporary than an habitual feeling,... | |
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I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain, in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me? I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage... 
