 | H. M. Melford - 1841 - 466 страници
...just: thrice happy, if they know Their happiness, and persevere upright. (Milton's Paradise Lost.) No greater felicity can genius attain than that of...purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth from indency, and wit from licentiousness. (Johnson?) Poor Leslie was overcome. — He caught her to his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 страници
...and easiness of manners with laxitv of principles. He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught ch are oae. Though I must go, endure not yet A breach,...after it, And grows erecl as Ihat comes home Such wil gayety to the aid of goodness ; and, if I may uso expressions yet more awful, of havins " turned many... | |
 | John Hayward - 1842 - 444 страници
...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...literary character above all Greek, above all Roman fame. As a teacher of wisdom, he may be confidently followed. His religion has nothing in it enthusiastic... | |
 | John Hayward - 1845 - 458 страници
...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...literary character above all Greek, above all Roman fame. As a teacher of wisdom, he may be confidently followed. His religion has nothing in it enthusiastic... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 страници
...and easiness of manners with laxity of principle*. He has restored virtue to its dignity, and tanght innocence not to be ashamed. This is an elevation of literary character, " above all Grank, above all Komin fam?." No greater felicity can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual... | |
 | Lady of Rhode Island - 1850 - 158 страници
...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...character, above all Greek, above all Roman, fame. As a teacher of wisdom, he may be confidently followed. His religion has nothing in it enthusiastic... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1851 - 600 страници
...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...character, above all Greek, above all Roman, fame. As a teacher of wisdom, he may be confidently followed. His religion has nothing in it enthusiastic... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1851 - 592 страници
...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...character, above all Greek, above all Roman, fame. As a teacher of wisdom, he may be confidently followed. His religion has nothing in it enthusiastic... | |
 | Popular educator - 1852 - 1272 страници
...vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of principles. He restored virtue to its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed. This is an elevation of literary character beyond all Greek, above all Koman fame. As a teacher of wisdom he may be confidently followed. His... | |
 | George Smith - 1855 - 604 страници
...felicity, are regarded as moral enjoyments, abstracted from every thing which can serve as an alloy : ' No greater felicity can genius attain than that of...mirth from indecency, and wit from licentiousness.'* Bliss is that which is purely spiritual; it has its source in the imagination, and rises above the... | |
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... 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 its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed. This is an elevation of literary character,... 
