 | Evangeline Maria O'Connor - 1887 - 440 pages
...despises him, by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety, by an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged, as his...ambitious kind, but consists in easy scapes and sallies or levity, which make sport, but raise no envy." — JOHNSON. King Henry the Fifth, which, as promised... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 502 pages
...despises him by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety, by an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged as his...offensive but that it may be borne for his mirth. The moral to be drawn from this representation is, that no H 2 man Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson.... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford - Wit and humor - 1894 - 460 pages
...despises him, by the most pleasing of all qunlities, perpetual gaiety, by an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged, as his...sallies of levity, which make sport, but raise no envy." ter throughout three plays, and exhibited him in every variety of situation ; the figure is drawn so... | |
 | Albert Stratford George Canning - 1907 - 572 pages
...which may be admired, but not esteemed ; of vice which may be despised, but hardly detested. . . . He is stained with no enormous or sanguinary crimes,...licentiousness is not so offensive but that it may be borne with for his mirth." — Johnson's " Notes to Henry IV." Yet, had Johnson really known Falstaff personally,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 1908 - 368 pages
...therefore incurred no punishment." And in another place Johnson bids us remember that Falstaff's character is "stained with no enormous or sanguinary crimes,...offensive but that it may be borne for his mirth." On the whole, I am inclined to call this the " backing of your friends." Foreign judgment is harsher,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 254 pages
...despises him, by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety, by an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged, as his...the splendid or ambitious kind, but consists in easy escapes and sallies of levity, which make sport but raise no envy. It must be observed that he is stained... | |
 | Charles F. Johnson - 1909 - 418 pages
...despises him, by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety, by an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged as his...offensive but that it may be borne for his mirth. Remembering, suddenly, his duty to society, the Doctor comes about, and concludes : — The moral to... | |
 | Richard Johnson Walker - English literature - 1913 - 592 pages
...despises him, by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety ; by an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged, as his...offensive but that it may be borne for his mirth." A judgment such as this one is characteristic of Johnson ; it is elaborate, somewhat prejudiced, and... | |
 | Literature - 1913 - 874 pages
...freely indulged, as his wit is not of the splendid or ambitions kind, but consists in easy scrapes and sallies of levity, which make sport, but raise...stained with no enormous or sanguinary crimes, so that bisl licentiousness is not so offensive but that it may be borne for his mirth." A judgment such as... | |
 | W. L. George - Fiction - 1918 - 292 pages
...despises him, by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety ; by an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged, as his...offensive but that it may be borne for his mirth." A judgment such as this one is characteristic of Johnson ; it is elaborate, somewhat prejudiced, and... | |
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Yet the man thus corrupt, thus despicable, makes himself necessary to the prince that despises him, by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety, by an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged, as his wit is not... 
