 on this part of my work with pleasure, which no [blame or praise of] man shall diminish or augment. I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue,...  Johnsonian Miscellanies - Page 398publié par - 1897 - 517 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | George Biller - 1876 - 136 pages
...Monarchy. Let truth and. goodness thy great masters be; And other men may then well yield to thee. I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning...who have given ardour to virtue and confidence to truth.—Dr. JOHNSON. Their greatest misfortunes are what they best merit; This is the sting of most... | |
 | 1883 - 558 pages
...Holy Spirit might not be withheld from him, and he ended it by the well-grounded hope that he might be “numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue and confidence to truth!' There were many among his readers who complained that his tone was too serious, and that among so much... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi, Richard Cumberland - 1884 - 468 pages
...levity of the present age. I, therefore, look back on this part of my work with pleasure, which no man shall diminish or augment. I shall never envy...given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth." The whole number of essays amounted to two hundred and eight. Addison's, in the Spectator, are more... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 742 pages
...which he consoles himself. How much better would it have been to have ended with the prose sentence, " I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning...given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth." His friend, Dr. Birch, being now engaged in preparing an edition of Ralegh's smaller pieces, Dr. Johnson... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 722 pages
...which he consoles himself. How much better would it have been to have ended with the prose sentence, " I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning...given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth." His friend, Dr. Birch, being now engaged in preparing an edition of Ralegh's smaller pieces, Dr. Johnson... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 400 pages
...aurum." With virfue virtue weighed, what worthless trash is gold.— Journal, September 13. virtue and I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning...who have given ardour to virtue and confidence to truth.—Life, 1750. Heroic virtues are the bans mots of life.— Heroic Virtues _,. ., , , Piozzi... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi, Richard Cumberland - 1884 - 490 pages
...pleasure, which no man shall diminii or augment . I shall never envy the honours which wit and learni' obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writ who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth." 1 whole number of essays amounted to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 490 pages
...which he consoles himself. How much better would it have been, to have ended with the prose sentence " I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning...given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth." His friend Dr. Birch, being now engaged in preparing an edition of Ralegh's smaller pieces, Dr. Johnson... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 570 pages
...intentions, will be found exactly conformable to the precepts of Christianity I therefore look back on this part of my work with pleasure, which no blame or praise of man shall diminish oraugment.' RamHer,Ho.'2o&. 3 1 have little doubt that this attack on the concluding verse is an indirect... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 598 pages
...intentions, will be found exactly conformable tothe precepts of Christianity I therefore look back on this part of my work with pleasure, which no blame or praise of man shall diminish oraugment.' Rambler, No.aoS. 3 I have little doubt that this attack on the concluding verse is an indirect... | |
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