 | George Smith - 1855 - 604 pages
...felicity, are regarded as moral enjoyments, abstracted from every thing which can serve as an alloy : ' No greater felicity can genius attain than that of...mirth from indecency, and wit from licentiousness.'* Bliss is that which is purely spiritual; it has its source in the imagination, and rises above the... | |
 | Emil Kade - 1856 - 280 pages
...conduct of Godfrey of Bouillon. G. — c. Never were troops more strongly animated with emulation. R. — No greater felicity can genius attain , than that of having purified intellectual pleasure. Johnson. — No .sooner had Timour reunited to the patrimony of Zagatai the dependent countries of... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1855 - 416 pages
...to the cause of reason and of truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gayety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of...indecency, and wit from licentiousness ; of having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gayety to the aid of goodness ; and, if I may use expressions... | |
 | 1857 - 574 pages
...prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manner with laxity of principle. He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught...character " above all Greek, above all Roman fame." Of his merits as an essayist, a moral writer, a satirist, and a critic, we again quote the opinion... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1859 - 384 pages
...the cause of reason and truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected cheerfulness with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of...literary character above all Greek, above all Roman fame. As a teacher of wisdom, he may be confidently followed. His religion has nothing in it enthusiastic... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1859 - 1030 pages
...to other*, and from his timo It has been generally subservient to the cause of reason and of truth. No greater felicity can genius attain than that of...indecency, and wit from licentiousness ; of having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gayety to the aid of goodness; and, if I may use expression*... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1863 - 202 pages
...while that country and its language exist. He employed wit in the service of truth and religion, " restored virtue to its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed." As he advanced in years, the higher features of his character acquired greater prominence ; and with... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1868 - 384 pages
...the cause of reason and truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected cheerfulness with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of...literary character above all Greek, above all Roman fame. As a teacher of wisdom, he may be confidently followed. His religion has nothing in it enthusiastic... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 pages
...Johnson's observation regarding the literary career of Addison may be justly applied to himself : " 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."... | |
 | Clemens Klöpper - 1881 - 508 pages
...cannot procure us happiness. He would think himself happy, if that should happen to him (Ainsworth). No greater felicity can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure (Johnson). Money or pleasure can give only a fugitive enjoyment; enduring felicity must arise from... | |
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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... 
