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”?

By Pamela Landy

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