 to the consummate painter of life and manners. It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule without abusing it, who, without inflicting a wound, effected a great social reform, and who reconciled wit and virtue, after...  Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 420by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Addison - 1888 - 604 pages
...due to the unsullied statesman, to the accomplished scholar, to the master of pure English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners. It...all. to the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicula without abusing it, who. without inflicting a wound, effected a great social reform, and who... | |
 | Joseph Hughes - 1889 - 600 pages
...Casca, and say what part he (or she) plays in the drama, illustrating your answer by quotations. VII. ' It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who...during which wit had been led astray by profligacy and virtue by fanaticism.' Comment on the various assertions of the above passage. How does it illustrate... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1889 - 556 pages
...due to the unsullied statesman, to the accomplished scholar, to the master of pure English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners. It...inflicting a wound, effected a great social reform, anH whn rp^on™'!**^ wit and^ vjrtue, a,ftgr^ a long and. disastrous separation, fhiring^rhjrJm-it... | |
 | 1890 - 330 pages
...as " the unsullied statesman, the accomplished scholar, the consummate painter of life and manners, the great satirist who alone knew how to use ridicule...and who reconciled wit and virtue after a long and painful separation, during which wit had been led astray by profligacy and virtue by fanaticism." Year.... | |
 | 1890 - 444 pages
...of the first of essayists that he "without inflicting a wound, effected a great social reform . . . reconciled wit and virtue after a long and disastrous...during which wit had been led astray by profligacy and virtue by fanaticism." Dr. Johnson, too, said, " He not only made the proper use of wit himself,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1891 - 500 pages
...due to the unsullied statesman, to the accomplished scholar, to the master of pure English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners. It...during which wit had been led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism."—Macauiay. THE WORKS EIGHT HONOUEABLE JOSEPH ADDISON. WITH NOTES BY RICHARD... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 364 pages
...due to the unsullied statesman, to the accomplished scholar, to the master of pure English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners. It...during which wit had been led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism. NOTES THE SELECT ESSAYS OF ADDISON. P. 1. I have observed, etc. Though the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 248 pages
...due to the unsullied statesman, to the accomplished scholar, to the master of pure English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners. It...during which wit had been led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism." Besides the works already mentioned, Addison was the author of several Latin... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 142 pages
...scholar, to the master of pure English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners. It 20 was due, above all, to the great satirist, who alone...during which wit had been led astray by profligacy and virtue by 25 fanaticism. . . f i • .... ::.../'' '.:\ A TEXT-BOOK ON ENGLISH LITERATURE With... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1893 - 224 pages
...accomplished scholar, to the master of pure English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and maners. It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who...during which. wit had been led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism. ENGLISH LITERATURE. Of our popular list of classics the editor of the Christian... | |
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