...great masters of ridicule, is the grace, the nobleness, the moral purity, which we find even in hiis merriment. Severity, gradually hardening and darkening...parallel in literary history. The highest proof of human virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. No kind of power is more formidable...

...men made perfect be derived from an exquisite perception of the ludicrous, their mirth must surely be none other than the mirth of Addison; — a mirth...parallel in literary history. The highest proof of human virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. No kind of power is more formidable...

...exquisite perception of the ludicrous, their mirth must surely be none other than the mirth of Addison;—a mirth consistent with tender compassion for all that...parallel in literary history. The highest proof of human virtue is to possess bo"undless power without abusing it. No kind of power is more formidable...

...men made perfect be derived from an exquisite perception of the ludicrous, their mirth must surely be none other than the mirth of Addison ; — a mirth consistent with tender compassion for all that ia frail, and with profound reverence for all that is sublime. Nothing great, nothing amiable, no moral...

...thoroughly unselfish, and seek to communicate it." Catholicism will approve only of a wisdom that is humane, consistent with tender compassion for all that is...and with profound reverence for all that is sublime. Those who feel no attraction to the centre here are men like Menedemus, as light as the bird of St....

...men made perfect be derived from an exquisite perception of the ludicrous, their mirth must surely be none other than the mirth of Addison ; — a mirth...parallel in literary history. The highest proof of human virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. No kind of power is more formidable...

...men made perfect be derived from an exquisite perception of the ludicrous, then- mirth must surely be none other than the mirth of Addison ; — a mirth...parallel in literary history. The highest proof of human virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. No kind of power is more formidable...

...men made perfect be derived from an exquisite perception of the ludicrous, their mirth must surely be none other than the mirth of Addison ;— a mirth...parallel in literary history. The highest proof of human virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. No kind of power is more formidable...

...men made perfect be derived from an exquisite perception of the ludicrous, their mirth must surely be none other than the mirth of Addison ; — a mirth...parallel in literary history. The highest proof of human virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. No kind of power is more formidable...

...; — a mirth eonsistent with tender eompassion for all that is frail, and with profound reverenee for all that is sublime. Nothing great, nothing amiable, no moral duty, no doetrimof natural or revealed religion, has ever been assoeiated by Addison with any degrading idea....