 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 598 pages
...gzictv with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of principles. He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed. This...No greater felicity can genius attain, than that of i-iaving purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth from indecency, and wit from licentiousness;... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 620 pages
...gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of principles. He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed. This...character " above all Greek, above all Roman fame." 'No greatet felicity can genius attain, than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 412 pages
...literary charter ees«? all üw*, eAev» ttll /few«» flimf. No greater felicity can genius at' tain» than that of having purified intellectual pleasure)...mirth from Indecency, and wit from licentiousness i of having taught a sue« eession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety tu the aid of goodness t... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 378 pages
...connected gaiety with vice and easiness of manners with laxity of principles. He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed. This...taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to Ihe aid of goodness; and, if I may use expressions yet more awful, of having " turned many... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 380 pages
...vice and easiness of manners with laxity of principles. He has restored virtue to its dignity, anff taught innocence not to be ashamed. This is an elevation...taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness; and, if I may use expressions yet more awful, of having " turned many... | |
 | Walter Hutchinson Aston - Bible - 1811 - 324 pages
...gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of principles. He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed. This...character, " above all Greek, above all Roman fame." Ko greater felicity can genius attain, than having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 512 pages
...gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of principles. He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed. This...taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness ; and, to use expressions yet more awful, of having " turned many to... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 510 pages
...gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of principles. He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed. This...taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness ; and, to use expressions yet more awful, of having " turned many to... | |
 | George Miller - 1813 - 638 pages
...cheerfulness with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of principles. He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed. This...character, above all Greek, above all Roman fame. As a teacher of wisdom, he may be confidently followed. His religion has nothing in it enthusiastic... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 504 pages
...gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of principles. He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed. This...fame." No greater felicity can genius attain, than thatof having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth from indecency, and wit from licentiousness... | |
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No greater felicity can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth from indecency, and wit from licentiousness; of having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness; and, if... 
