 | 1890 - 398 страници
...prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice and easiness of manners with laxity of principles. He restored virtue to its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed." Both these writers have depreciated unduly the aid Steele gave to Addison in effecting this social... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 234 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...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
...the cause of reason and of truth. He has 30 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 at5 tain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated... | |
 | Joseph Thomas - 1901 - 1344 страници
...Johnson, " but taught it to others. . . . 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,'" Although the Whigs were defeated in the general election of 1710, Addison was so popular that he was... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 456 страници
...added to virtue and religion.' He 3 Addison's Works, Preface, p. 5. goes on to mention Steele, and restored virtue to its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed r. This is an elevation of literary character, ' above all Greek, above all Roman fame '.' No greater... | |
 | 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....character, ' above all Greek, above all Roman fame.' No greater felicity can genius attain, than that of havthe aid of goodness; and, if I may use expressions... | |
 | Alfred Plummer - 1910 - 268 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 ' (Pope). No greater felicity can genius attain, than that of having purified intellectual pleasure,... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - 1910 - 778 страници
...to the cause of reason and of truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety is it Homer nods, but we that dream. 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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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 its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed. This is an elevation of literary character " above... 
