...philologist. Limits ol Stale Action, ch. 3 (1792; repr. 1 854; If. and ed. by JW Burrow, 1 969). 3 /producer tear or hope from censure or from praise. SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-84), English author, lexicographer....

...austere note of ascetic refusal, as one who has outlived his present: 'I have protracted my work until most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise' (p. 328). Epitaph-wise the author consigns himself to posterity and the poets of a classical past....

...shelter of academick bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow ... I have protracted my work till most of those whom...grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds." A portrait of the author momentarily displaces the book. Johnson surely exaggerated his "gloom of solitude"...

...passages of the Preface. The most famous and most pathetic passage of all, of course, is the envoy: "I have protracted my work till most of those whom...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." At the moment, unfortunately, there are three superior numbers marring the reader's appreciation of...

...writing this book is an almost laughable understatement. Fortunately, unlike Dr. Johnson, I have not "protracted my work till most of those, whom I wished...grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds." It just felt that way. At long last I can enjoy the pleasant duty of thanking colleagues, students,...

...Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). "I have protracted my work," he wrote in the preface to his Dictionary, "till most of those whom I wished to please, have...having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise."9 Appendix I The Power of False Truths: The Maternity Hospital and the Mental Hospital Vague...