...others; and from his time it has been generally subservient to the cause of reason and of truth. . . . This is an elevation of literary character, "above all Greek, above all Roman fame." (n, 115-16) Yet, "Addison is to pass through futurity protected only by his genius" (n, 116), and Johnson's...

...of truth." Johnson thus emphasizes the symbolic, moral effect of the writer's life in the writing: "This is an elevation of literary character, 'above all Greek, above all Roman fame"' (H, 125-26). Yet he resists the sentimental ideology of the likes of Edward Young, for whom the moral...

...others; and from his time it has been generally subservient to the cause of reason and truth. [...] He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed.21 In the subsequent section on his subject's works, however, Johnson significantly emphasizes...

...generally subservient to the cause of reason and of truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners...indecency, and wit from licentiousness ; of having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness ; and, if I may use expressions...