 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 páginas
...CEconomy, and give their fecond Edition another Form, I may furely be contented without the Praife of Perfection, which, if I could obtain, in this Gloom...would it avail me ? I have protracted my Work till mofl of thofe whom I wifhed to pleafe have funk into the Grave, and Succefs and Mifcarriageare empty... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 páginas
...CEconomy, and give their fecond Edition another Form, I may furely be contented without the Praife of Perfection, which, if I could obtain, in this Gloom...would it avail me ? I have protracted my Work till moft of thofe whom I wifhed to pleafe have funk into the Grave, anld Succefs and Mifcarriageare empty... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 412 páginas
...CE'conomy, and give their fecond Edition another Form, I may furely be contented without the Praife of Perfection, which, if I could obtain, in this Gloom of Solitude 3 what would it avail me ? I have protrafled my Work till moft of thofe whom I wifhed to pleafe have... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 392 páginas
...them from the Cenfure of Beni ; if the embodied Criticks of France, when fifty Years had been fpent upon their Work, were obliged to change its (Economy, and give their fecond Edition another Form, I may furely be contented without the Praife of Perfection, which, if... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 páginas
...academicians, did not secure them from the censure of Bern; if the.embodied criticks of í'iaiicr, when fifty years had been spent upon their work, were...without the praise of perfection, which, if I could «tein, in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me ? 1 have protracted my werk till most of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 páginas
...and cooperating diligence of the Italian academicians, did not secure them from the censure of Beni ; if the embodied critics of France, when fifty years...spent upon their work, were obliged to change its ceconomy, and give their second edition another form, I may surely be contented without the praise... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 páginas
...wonder the vigorous and splendid thoughts which so highly distinguish that performance. " 1 (says he) may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which if I could obtain in this gloom oi solitude, what would it avail me ! 1 have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 páginas
...and cooperating diligence of the Italian academicians, did not secure them from the censure of Bcni ; if the embodied critics of France, when fifty years...this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me ? I hare protracted my work till most of those whom I wished t« please have sunk into the grave, and success... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 páginas
...of the Italian academicians, did not secure them from the censure of Beni; if the embodied criticks of France, when fifty years had been spent upon their work, were obliged to change its eeconomy, and give their second editiqn another form, I may surely be contented without the praise... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 páginas
...of the Italian academicians, did not secure them from the censure of Beni; if the embodied criticks of France, when fifty years had been spent upon their work, were obliged to change its ceconomy, and give their second edition another form, I may surely be contented without the praise... | |
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If the lexicons of ancient tongues, 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 co-operating diligence of the Italian academicians did not secure... 
