| British essayists - 1823 - 884 страници
...to the cause of reason and of truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of...literary character above all Greek, above all Roman fame. No greater felicity can genius attain, than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 страници
...to the cause of reason and of truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of...character, " above all Greek, above all Roman fame." No greater felicity can genius attain, than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 страници
...to the cause of reason and of truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of...character, " above all Greek, above all Roman fame." No greater felicity can genius attain, than that of- having purified intellectual pleasure, separated... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 страници
...to the cause of reason and of truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of principles. He has restored virtue to nit, and ttMiht 'nnfM*pin*" no*- tn hf fiT"""!^ This is an elevation_of literary .character, "above... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 страници
...to the cause of reason and of truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long- connected gaiety with vice, 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 of literary character, "... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 страници
...subservient to the cause of reason and truth. He has dissipated the prejndice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of...character, ' above all Greek, above all Roman fame.' No greater felicity can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 страници
...cause of reason and of truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gayety with yice, ټ @v - No greater felicity can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1888 - 406 страници
...and his " Evidences of the Christian Religion," not the least so. Dr. Johnson, in delineating hit 216 character, as a writer, gives the following amiable...not to be ashamed. This is an elevation of literary charac ter, above all Greek, above all Roman, fame. As a teacher of wisdom, he may be confidently followed.... | |
| 1838 - 1056 страници
...subservient to the cause of reason and truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice and easiness of manners with laxity of principles....character "above all Greek, above all Roman fame." No greater felicity can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 страници
...has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaycty with vice, and easiness of manners witli laxity of principles. He has restored virtue to its...character, " above all Greek, above all Roman fame." No greater felicity can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated... | |
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