 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.  Recreations of a recluse [signed F.J.]. - Page 315by F. J - 1870Full view - About this book
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1845 - 618 pages
...appreciated if the aspirant will hide his time ; for the time may never come, or come too late — when his faculties have been deteriorated by disuse, and...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... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me TI have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have 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... | |
 | James Boswell - Biography - 1846 - 602 pages
...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 are empty sounds. 1 therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 374 pages
...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 are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 1798 pages
...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 are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1851 - 192 pages
...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 are empty sounds ; I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from... | |
 | George Higby Throop - 1851 - 250 pages
...sorrow.' And you remember those closing words : ' I have protracted my work until most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave ; 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 - 588 pages
...this gloom of solitnde, 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 are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from ceusure or from... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...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 are emptv* sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...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 are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from... | |
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