 | Joseph Thomas - 1915 - 1358 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 fameJJi'Although the Whigs were defeated in the general election of 1710, Addison was sa popular that... | |
 | Hans Meier - 1916 - 124 страници
...und as it admits no human manners till the Fall, it can give little assistance to human conduct.14) No greater felicity can genius attain 'than that of having purified intellectual pleasures — of having taught asuccession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness;... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1923 - 290 страници
...justice to Addison we may observe that Johnson sums up Addison's contributions to literature thus : " No greater felicity can genius attain than that of...mirth from indecency, and wit from licentiousness ; and of having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness."... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 368 страници
...still, however, I was not satisfied. See also Johnson's commendation of The Sfectator (Life of Addison): No greater felicity can genius attain than that of...and gaiety to the aid of goodness; and, if I may use expressiont yet more awful, of having "turned many to righteousness." 8 Essay on Man, 4. I : Oh Happiness!... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 364 страници
...Mil!, however, I was not satisfied. See also Johnson's commendation of The Spectator (Life of Addison): No greater felicity can genius attain than that of...writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodneii) and, if I may use expression! yet more awful, of having "turned many to righteousness." 3... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 страници
...others; and from his time it has been generally subservient to the cause of reason and of truth. . . . This is an elevation of literary character, "above all Greek, above all Roman fame." (n, 115-16) Yet, "Addison is to pass through futurity protected only by his genius" (n, 116), and Johnson's... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 страници
...of truth." Johnson thus emphasizes the symbolic, moral effect of the writer's life in the writing: "This is an elevation of literary character, 'above all Greek, above all Roman fame"' (H, 125-26). Yet he resists the sentimental ideology of the likes of Edward Young, for whom the moral... | |
 | Richard Claverhouse Jebb, Caroline Jebb - 664 страници
...wished to say, grave or lively, could be said in this tone. As Johnson finely says of him, Addison " taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness." But Johnson had grown up to middle-life, a poor and recluse student struggling with adversity ; " toil,... | |
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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,... 
