| George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 512 страници
...chastised philosophical spirit.' Warton's Pope's Works, ed. 1822, 1.230; iv. 179. 3 Life, v. 76. * 'Addison has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected...and easiness of manners with laxity of principles. ... All the enchantment of fancy and all the cogency of argument are employed to recommend to the reader... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 234 страници
...taught it to others : and from this time it has been generally subservient to the cause of reason and of truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long...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... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1901 - 252 страници
...no apology. Johnson said of Addison : " He has dissipated the prejudice that long connected gayety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of...its dignity and taught innocence not to be ashamed." Courthope, who is more moderate in spirit and more scholarly in method, says : " The work of Addison... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 страници
...and from his time it has been generally subservient to the cause of reason and of truth. He has 30 dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety...above all Roman fame." No greater felicity can genius at5 tain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth from indecency, and wit... | |
| Joseph Thomas - 1901 - 1344 страници
...He not only made the proper use of wit himself" says Dr. Johnson, " but taught it to others. . . . He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected...character, ' above all Greek, above all Roman fame,'" Although the Whigs were defeated in the general election of 1710, Addison was so popular that he was... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 456 страници
...taught it to others ; and from his time it has been generally subservient to the cause of reason and of truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long...with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of principles4. He has ill-natured applications. ... I know Tickell also in The Prospect of Peace very... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 страници
...of reason and of truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, 80 and easiness of manners with laxity of principles....No greater felicity can genius attain, than that of havthe aid of goodness; and, if I may use expressions yet more awful, of having ' turned many to righteousness.'... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 страници
...taught it to others; and from his time it has been generally subservient to the cause of reason and of truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, 30 and easiness of manners with laxity of principles. He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught... | |
| Alfred Plummer - 1910 - 268 страници
...taught it to others ; and from his time it has been generally subservient to the cause of reason and of truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long...character, ' above all Greek, above all Roman fame ' (Pope). No greater felicity can genius attain, than that of having purified intellectual pleasure,... | |
| Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - 1910 - 778 страници
...taught it to others; and from his time it has been generally subservient to the cause of reason and of seem sometimes to lly. Those oft arc stratagems which...180 Of all the causes which conspire to blind 201 foment No greater felicity can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated... | |
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