...despises him, by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety, by an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged, as his...ambitious kind, but consists in easy scapes and sallies or levity, which make sport, but raise no envy." — JOHNSON. King Henry the Fifth, which, as promised...

...despises him by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety, by an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged as his...offensive but that it may be borne for his mirth. The moral to be drawn from this representation is, that no H 2 man Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson....

...despises him, by the most pleasing of all qunlities, perpetual gaiety, by an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged, as his...sallies of levity, which make sport, but raise no envy." ter throughout three plays, and exhibited him in every variety of situation ; the figure is drawn so...

...which may be admired, but not esteemed ; of vice which may be despised, but hardly detested. . . . He is stained with no enormous or sanguinary crimes,...licentiousness is not so offensive but that it may be borne with for his mirth." — Johnson's " Notes to Henry IV." Yet, had Johnson really known Falstaff personally,...

...therefore incurred no punishment." And in another place Johnson bids us remember that Falstaff's character is "stained with no enormous or sanguinary crimes,...offensive but that it may be borne for his mirth." On the whole, I am inclined to call this the " backing of your friends." Foreign judgment is harsher,...

...despises him, by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety, by an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged, as his...the splendid or ambitious kind, but consists in easy escapes and sallies of levity, which make sport but raise no envy. It must be observed that he is stained...

...despises him, by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety, by an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged as his...offensive but that it may be borne for his mirth. Remembering, suddenly, his duty to society, the Doctor comes about, and concludes : — The moral to...

...despises him, by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety ; by an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged, as his...offensive but that it may be borne for his mirth." A judgment such as this one is characteristic of Johnson ; it is elaborate, somewhat prejudiced, and...

...freely indulged, as his wit is not of the splendid or ambitions kind, but consists in easy scrapes and sallies of levity, which make sport, but raise...stained with no enormous or sanguinary crimes, so that bisl licentiousness is not so offensive but that it may be borne for his mirth." A judgment such as...

...despises him, by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety ; by an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged, as his...offensive but that it may be borne for his mirth." A judgment such as this one is characteristic of Johnson ; it is elaborate, somewhat prejudiced, and...