 | William Shakespeare - 1793 - 860 pages
...little,- for railing in the publick expectations, which at laft I have not anfwered. The expectation of ignorance is indefinite, and that of knowledge...demand, or thofe who demand by defign what they think impofllblc to be done. I have indeed difappointed no opinion more than my own; yet I have endeavoured... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...best of all evidence — his own word. ' I have, indeed,' he writes (Works, v. 152), 'disappointed no opinion more than my own; yet I have endeavoured to perform my task with no slight solicitude. Not a single passage in the whole work has appeared to me corrupt which... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...best of all evidence — his own word. ' I have, indeed,' he writes ( Works, v. 1 52), ' disappointed no opinion more than my own ; yet I have endeavoured to perform my task with no slight solicitude. Not a single passage in the whole work has appeared to me corrupt .... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1800 - 330 pages
...little ; for raifmg in the publick expe£tations, what at laft I have not anfwered. The expedition, of ignorance is indefinite, and that of knowledge...what they think impoffible to be done. I have indeed difappoinled no opinion more than my own ; yet I have endeavoured to perform my ta/k with no flight... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 454 pages
...little ; for raifing in the publick, expettations which at laft I have not anfwered. The expectation of ignorance is indefinite, and that of knowledge...done. I have indeed difappointed no opinion more than ray own ; yet I have endeavoured to perform my tafk with no ffight folicitude. Not a fingle paffage... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson - 1803 - 542 pages
...Lat. Vol. III. 8Q4. STEEVENS. publick expectations, which at laft I have not anfwered. The expedtation of ignorance is indefinite, and that of knowledge...to perform my tafk with no flight folicitude. Not a angle paflage in the whole work has appeared to me corrupt, which I have not attempted to reftore ;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...little; for raising in the publick expectations, which at last I have not answered. The expectation of ignorance is indefinite, and that of knowledge is often tyrannical. It is hard to satisfy those who know not what to demand, or those who demand by design what they think impossible... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1802 - 422 pages
...little ;. for raiting rn the publick expectations, which at laft I have not anfwered. The expectation of ignorance is indefinite, and that of knowledge...than my own ; yet I have endeavoured to perform my talk with no flight folicitude. Not a (ingle paffage in the whole work has appeared to me corrupt,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...little; for raising in the publick, expectations which at last I have not answered. The expectation of ignorance is indefinite, and that of knowledge is often tyrannical. It is hard to satisfy those who know not what to demand, or those who demand by design what they think impossible... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 pages
...little ; for raising in the publick expectations, what at last I have not answered. The expectation of ignorance is indefinite, and that of knowledge is often tyrannical. It is hard to satisfy those who know not what to demand, or those who demand by design what they think impossible... | |
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I have indeed disappointed no opinion more than my own ; yet I have endeavoured to perform: my task with no slight solicitude. 
