| Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 516 pagina’s
...generally subservient to the cause of reason and truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners...indecency, and wit from licentiousness ; of having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness ; and, to use expressions... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1819 - 376 pagina’s
...truth. He has'dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaity with vice and easiness of^Slanners with laxity of principles. He has restored virtue...indecency, and wit from licentiousness, of having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness ; and, if I may use expressions... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 416 pagina’s
...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 manners...indecency, and wit from licentiousness ; of having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness ; and, if I may use espressions... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 430 pagina’s
...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 manners...No greater felicity can genius attain than that of VOL. n. i having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth from indecency, and wit from licentiousness... | |
| 1820 - 422 pagina’s
...the proper use of wit 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. He restored virtue to its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed. This is an elevation of literary... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 434 pagina’s
...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 manners...No greater felicity can genius attain than that of VOL. n. I having purified /intellectual pleasure, separated mirth from indecency, and wit from licentiousness... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 298 pagina’s
...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 manners...indecency, and wit from licentiousness ; of having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness ; and, if I may use expressions... | |
| 1822 - 820 pagina’s
...the prejudice that long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of principle. He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught...indecency, and wit from licentiousness; of having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness, and, if I may use expressions... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 632 pagina’s
...abilities might be made subservient to truth and j ustice. " H e has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners...indecency, and wit from licentiousness ; of having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness ; and, if 1 may use expressions... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 446 pagina’s
...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 manners...indecency, and wit from licentiousness ; of having taught a successon of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness ; and, if I may use expressions... | |
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