 | James Macaulay - 1884 - 164 páginas
...innocence not to be ashamed. This is an elevation of literary character, above all Greek, above all Rome fame. 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... | |
 | James Macaulay - 1884 - 172 páginas
...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 all Greek, above all Rome fame. No greater felicity can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1887 - 216 páginas
...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...genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separating mirth from indecency and wit from licentiousness ; of having taught a succession... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 356 páginas
...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 all Greek, above all Roman fame1.' No greater felicity can genius attain, than that of having purified intellectual pleasure,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 360 páginas
...be ashamed. This is an elevation of literary character, ' above all Greek, above all Roman fame1.' 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... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1876 - 324 páginas
...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 all...attain, than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth from indecency, and wit from licentiousness ; of having taught a succession... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 474 páginas
...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...genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth from indecency, and wit from licentiousness ; of having taught a succession... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1892 - 220 páginas
...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...genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth from indecency, and wit from licentiousness ; of having taught a succession... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1892 - 220 páginas
...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...Roman fame.' No greater felicity can genius attain II.— INTELLECTUAL CORRUPTION. 81 than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1894 - 462 páginas
...to others, and from his time it has been generally subservient to the cause of reason and of truth. 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... | |
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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... 
