What author said of what work, “I have protracted my work til 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 tranquility, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise”?

August 4, 2011 by Pamela Landy · Filed Under: Literature

Dr. Samuel Johnson said it of his dictionary in “Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language” (1747-55).