...and wit from licentiousness ; >f having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gayety to the aid of goodness; and, If I may use expressions yet more awful, of hating * turned many to righteousness.' -• His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected...

...generally subKrvlt-nt to the cauw of reason and of truth. No greater felicity ma genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth from Indecency, and wit from licentiousness; If having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gayety to the aid of goodness; and,...

...character " above all Greek, above all Roman fame." No greater felicity can genius at5 tain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth...if I may use expressions yet more awful, of having 10 "turned many to righteousness." Addison in his life, and for some time afterwards, was considered...

...character, ' above all Greek, above all Roman fame '.' No greater felicity can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth from indecency, and wit from licentiousness 3 ; of having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness ;...

...wished to say, grave or lively, could be said in this tone. As Johnson finely says of him, Addison " taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness." But Johnson had grown up to middle-life, a poor and recluse student struggling with adversity ; " toil,...

...above all Greek, above all Roman fame.' No greater felicity can genius attain, than that of havthe aid of goodness; and, if I may use expressions yet...life, and for some time afterwards, was considered by the greater part of readers as supremely excelling both in poetry and criticism. Part 5 of his reputation...

...character, above all Greek, above all Roman fame. No greater felicity can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth...life, and for some time afterwards, was considered by the greater part of readers as supremely excelling both in poetry and criticism. Part of his reputation...

...above all Greek, above all Roman fame ' (Pope). No greater felicity can genius attain, than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth...more awful, of having ' turned many to righteousness ' (Daniel xii. 3)." And again, on the 1 See CJ Abbey, Religious Thought in Old English Verse, pp. 325...

...can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth from ind cency, and wit from licentiousness; of having taught a succession...awful, of having ' turned many to righteousness.' * * * As a describer of life and manners, he must be allowed to stand perhaps the first of the first...

...succession of writers ie Swift's Inamorata. IT Quoted from Pope, To Augustus, to bring elegance ami e revision, may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient, and claim the privilege rightJAMES BOSWELL (1740-1795) FIIOM TIIK LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. JOHNSON AT SCHOOL He was first...