...character, " above all Greek, " above all Roman fame." No greater felicity can genius attain, than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth...afterwards, was considered by a greater part of readers 10 as supremely excelling both in poetry and criticism. Part of his reputation may be probably ascribed...

...character, " above all Greek, above all Roman, fame." No greater felicity can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth...the aid of goodness ; and, if I may use expressions yel more awful, of having " turned many to righteousness." Addison, in his life, and for some time...

...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,...