 | Joseph Addison - 1887 - 216 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...than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separating mirth from indecency and wit from licentiousness ; of having taught a succession of writers... | |
 | English language - 1887 - 152 pages
...connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of principle. He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed. This...character " above all Greek, above all Roman fame." IX. THE SAME. He was of a middle stature, of a thin habit of body, a long visage, coarse features,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1888 - 360 pages
...be ashamed. This is an elevation of literary character, ' above all Greek, above all Roman fame1.' No greater felicity can genius attain, than that of...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 - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1888 - 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...literary character, ' above all Greek, above all Roman fame1.' No greater felicity can genius attain, than that of having purified intellectual pleasure,... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1876 - 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...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 - 1890 - 474 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... | |
 | GEORGE BIRKBECK HILL - 1892 - 418 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... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - English literature - 1892 - 220 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...Roman fame.' No greater felicity can genius attain II.— INTELLECTUAL CORRUPTION. 81 than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Essays - 1898 - 234 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 is an elevation of character ' above all Greek, above all Roman fame.' No greater felicity can genius attain, than that... | |
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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... 
