 | British essayists - 1823 - 884 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, if I may use expressions yet more awful, of having « turned many... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 452 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...indecency, and wit from licentiousness ; of having taught a successon of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness ; and, if I may use expressions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 446 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...indecency, and wit from licentiousness ; of having taught a successon of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness ; and, if I may use expressions... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 356 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...of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated rnirth from indecency, and wit from licentiousness ; of having taught a succession of writers to bring... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 394 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, if I may use expressions yet more awful, of having " turned many... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 438 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, if I may use expressions yet more awful, of having " turned many... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 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, if I may use expressions yet more awful, of having " turned many... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 pages
...and easiness of manners with laxity of principles. He has restored virtue to if s dignity, and tuught 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1826 - 430 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, if I may use expressions yet more awful, of having ' turned many... | |
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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... 
