 | Ephraim Hunt - American literature - 1872 - 658 pages
...academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that, if...now immutably fixed, and comprised in a few volumes, be yet, after the toil of successive ages, inadequate and delusive ; if the aggregated knowledge and... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...in sorrow. It may repress the triumphs of malignant criticism to know, that if our language is not fully displayed, I have only failed in an attempt...now immutably fixed, and comprised in a few volumes, be yet after the toils of succeeding ages, inadequate and delusive ; if the aggregated knowledge and... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...thoughts to-morrow. DR. S. JOHNSON : Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language. It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that if...now immutably fixed, and comprised in a few volumes, be yet, after the toil of successive ages, inadequate and delusive ; if the aggregated knowledge and... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 576 pages
...academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the ore me. After forming plan after plan for removing...myself wandering in a maze of chambers from which be yet, after the toil of successive ages, inadequate and delusive ; if the aggregated knowledge and... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 582 pages
...academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that if...not here fully displayed, I have only failed in an att-mpt which no human powers have hitherto completed. If the lexicons of ancient tongues, now immutably... | |
 | Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that if...now immutably fixed, and comprised in a few volumes, be yet, after the toil of successive ages, inadequate and delusive ; if the aggregated knowledge and... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...Language. It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that if our language is nut here fully displayed, I have only failed in an attempt...now immutably fixed, and comprised in a few volumes, be yet, after the toil of successive ages, inadequate and delusive ; if the aggregated knowledge and... | |
 | English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the iave hitherto completed. If the lexicons of ancient tongues, now immutably fixed, and comprised in... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1881 - 842 pages
...in Borrow. It may repress the triumph of niKltgu;tnt criticism to observe, that if onr language la not here fully displayed. I have only failed in an...which no> human powers have hitherto completed. If the JknEfcOQi of ancient lonirces. now Immutnbly fixed, and comprised in a few volume*, be yet. after the... | |
 | Cyril Church - 1883 - 854 pages
...bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow; and it may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that if...attempt which no human powers have hitherto completed." This recalls Garrick's famous epigram, that " one Englishman had beaten forty Frenchmen in the contest... | |
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It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe that, if our language is not here fully displayed, I have only failed in an attempt which no human powers have hitherto completed. 
