 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1845 - 618 pages
...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 - Biography - 1846 - 602 pages
...the vigorous and splendid thoughts which so highly distinguish that performance. " I (says he) may surely be contented without the praise of perfection,...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...upon their work, were obliged to change its economy, and give their second edition another form, I may ߹5Ot W zQJ ߷y ^ x h5 oF s ! |zé d ... g f C ]N9 L}BT p # > ss K p % f S v [ } _ ~ ^ th/m met I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave,... | |
 | George Higby Throop - 1851 - 250 pages
...in sickness and in sorrow.' And you remember those closing words : ' I have protracted my work until most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into...; and success and miscarriage are empty sounds.'" " You are looking at the future gloomily." " Not gloomily, but truly." " At any rate, let us talk of... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1853 - 594 pages
...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, which, if I could obtain, in this gloom of Rolitude, what would it avail me ? I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...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,...sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are emptv* sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from... | |
 | James Boswell - 1858 - 482 pages
...the vigorous and splendid thoughts which so highly distinguish that performance. " I," says he, " may surely be contented without the praise of perfection,...this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me? I now deputy chairman of the excise board) to present the reader with the case submitted to Lord Mansfield,... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1858 - 470 pages
...come into full play and still further reduced the business of Westminster Hall.) 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... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1859 - 476 pages
...come into full play and still further reduced the business of Westminster Hall.) 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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors - 1859 - 570 pages
...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 has... | |
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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. 
