 | James Boswell - 1884 - 534 pages
...appears that the same religious spirit glowed, with unabated ardour, to the last. His conclusion is : " The essays professedly serious, if I have been able...back on this part of my work with pleasure, which no man shall diminish or augment. I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi, Richard Cumberland - 1884 - 468 pages
...appears that the same religious spirit glowed, with unabated ardour, to the last. His conclusion is ; " The essays professedly serious, if I have been able...back on this part of my work with pleasure, which no man shall diminish or augment. I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 598 pages
...the Greek line is engraved on the scroll in Johnson's monument in St. Paul's (post, Dec. 1784). 2 ' The essays professedly serious, if I have been able...own intentions, will be found exactly conformable tothe precepts of Christianity I therefore look back on this part of my work with pleasure, which no... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 316 pages
...in himself no likeness to the phantom before him ; and though he laughs or rages, is not reformed. The essays professedly serious, if I have been able...which no blame or praise of man shall diminish or augment.1 I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 294 pages
...in himself no likeness to the phantom before him ; and though he laughs or rages, is not reformed. The essays professedly serious, if I have been able...which no blame or praise of man shall diminish or augment.1 I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1894 - 688 pages
...the harmony of its cadence." He lacked the delicate touch of Addison. Of his moral aim he says : " The essays professedly serious, if I have been able...back on this part of my work with pleasure, which no praise or blame of man can diminish or augment. I shall never envy the honors which wit and learning... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 pages
...the harmony of its cadence." He lacked the delicate touch of Addison. Of his moral aim he says : " The essays professedly serious, if I have been able...back on this part of my work with pleasure, which no praise or blame of man can diminish or augment. I shall never envy the honors which wit and learning... | |
 | Thomas Northcote Toller - 1900 - 314 pages
...deviate farther from reality, they become less useful, because their lessons will fail of application. The essays professedly serious, if I have been able...blame or praise of man shall diminish or augment. 8. If the style of Johnson had remained peculiar to himself, there would have been hardly more reason... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 pages
...in himself no likeness to the phantom before him ; and though he laughs or rages, is not reformed. The essays professedly serious, if I have been able...present age. I therefore look back on this part of mv work with pleasure, which no blame or praise of man shall diminish or augment. I shall never envy... | |
 | Whitwell Elwin - 1902 - 574 pages
...in the concluding number he professed that, if he had executed his intentions, his labours " would be found exactly conformable to the precepts of Christianity,...accommodation to the licentiousness and levity of the age." He was not, he said, " much dejected by his want of popularity, for he only expected those to... | |
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The essays professedly serious, if I have been able to execute my own intentions, will be found exactly conformable to the precepts of Christianity, without any accommodation to the licentiousness and levity of the present age. 
