 | Henry Spackman Pancoast, Percy Van Dyke Shelly - 1910 - عدد الصفحات: 564
...shall not think my pains, or indeed my life, to have been spent in vain." JOSEPH ADDISON (1672-1719) " He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught...character, above all Greek, above all Roman fame. . . . Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious,... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1910 - عدد الصفحات: 776
...dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity At this the Father raised his hook, And snapped a...her hand. 24 Not blither is the mountain roe: Wit Soman fame.n No greater felicity can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure,... | |
 | Charles Morris - 1911 - عدد الصفحات: 618
...He not only made the proper use of wit himself," says Dr. Johnson, " but taught it to others. . . . He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught...of literary character ' above all Greek, above all Koman, fame." " Addison, Rev. Lancelot, the father of Joseph Addison, was born in Westmoreland, England,... | |
 | Joseph Thomas - 1915 - عدد الصفحات: 1358
...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,...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... | |
 | David Graham - 1925 - عدد الصفحات: 380
...had never written anything " without a moral view." 1 In his Life of Addison, Dr Johnson writes : " No greater felicity can genius attain than that of...taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness; and, if I may use expressions yet more awful, of having turned many... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1925 - عدد الصفحات: 148
...his life of Addison. Quiet Hours in 'Poets' Corner " No greater felicity," wrote the great Doctor, " can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual...taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness : and, if I may use expressions yet more awful, of having turned many... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - عدد الصفحات: 364
...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...taught a succession 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... | |
 | Edward Alan Bloom, Lillian D. Bloom - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 508
...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,...taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness; and, if I may use expressions yet more awful, of having turned many... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 418
...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,...taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness ; and, if I may use expressions yet more awful, of having " turned many... | |
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No greater felicity can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth from indecency, and wit from licentiousness; of having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness; and, if... 
