 ... 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...  The popular educator - Page 174by Popular educator - 1852Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1893 - 152 pages
...wit on the side of virtue and religion. He not only made the proper use of wit himself, but taught it to others ; and from his time it has been generally subservient to the cause of reason and of truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easilicentiousness... | |
 | Anthologies - 1890 - 398 pages
...himself, but taught it to others. . . . He dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice and easiness of manners with laxity of principles....dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed." Both these writers have depreciated unduly the aid Steele gave to Addison in effecting this social... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - Wit and humor - 1894 - 462 pages
...Johnson pays this lofty tribute to Addison : " He not only made the proper use of wit himself, but taught it 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,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Essays - 1898 - 234 pages
...and religion. He not only made the proper use of wit himself, but taught it to others : and from this time it has been generally subservient to the cause of reason and of truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - English poetry - 1900 - 318 pages
...wit on the side of virtue and religion. He not only made the proper use of wit himself, but taught it to others ; and from his time it has been generally subservient to the cause of reason and of truth. He has 30 dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1909 - 562 pages
...wit 25 on the side of virtue and religion. He not only made the proper use of wit himself, but taught it to others; and from his time it has been generally subservient to the cause of reason and of truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, 30 and easiness... | |
 | Alfred Plummer - Great Britain - 1910 - 268 pages
...wit on the side of virtue and religion. He not only made the proper use of wit himself, but taught it to others ; and from his time it has been generally subservient to the cause of reason and of truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English literature - 1910 - 776 pages
...wit on the side of virtue and religion. He not only made the proper use of wit himself, but taught nd thence they saw the bridge of wood, A furlong from their door. 40 They wept — and, turn of truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of... | |
 | Hans Meier - 1916 - 124 pages
...wearisome.153) Addison, sagt er,154) not only made the proper use of wit himself, but taught it to others ; from his time it has been generally subservient to the cause of reason and of truth. Von Boswell wissen wir, daß Johnson die puns verachtete.155) Dazu stimmt seine Definition... | |
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