 | 1735 - 682 pages
...'ertimated. ' Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain which the reader throws away. He only is the matter who keeps the mind in plcafing captivity; whofe pages are perufed with eagernels, and in hope... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 376 pages
...may commend. Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain, which the reader throws away. He only is the maftcr, who keeps the mind in pleafing captivity ; whofe pages are perufed with eagernefs, and in hope... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1772 - 388 pages
...commend. Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain, which the reader throws away. He only is the matter, who keeps the mind in pleafing captivity ', whofe pages are perufed with eagernefs, and in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 484 pages
...commend. Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in...away. He only is the mafter, who keeps the mind in pleating captivity ; whofe pages are perufed with eagernefs, and in hope of new pleafure are perufed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 476 pages
...is good in vain, which the reader throws away. He only is the mafter, who keeps the mind in pleating captivity ; whofe pages are perufed with eagernefs,...hope of new pleafure are perufed again; and whofe conclulion is perceived with an eye of forrow, fuch as the traveller cafts upon departing day. By his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 484 pages
.... -\"* *. • i > ."• 'f , " "and delight'; iyy their power of attracting Jng and detaining ther attention," That book is good in vain, which the reader...away. He only is the mafter, who keeps the mind in pleating captivity; whofe pages are perafed with eagerriefs, and jh hbpe of new pleafure are perufed... | |
 | Lodovico Ariosto - Italian poetry - 1785 - 454 pages
...eftimated. '* Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain which the reader throws away. He only is- the matter who keeps the mind in pleating captivity; whofe pages are perufed with eagernefs, and in hope... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vaiii, which the reader throws away. He only is the mafter, who keeps the mind in pleafirig captivity ; whofe pages are perufed with eagernefs, and in hope of new pleafure are perufed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...may commend. Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in...away. He only is the mafter, who keeps the mind in pleafing captivity - r whofe pages are perufed with eagernefs, and in hope of new pleafure are perufed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1794 - 450 pages
...commend. Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in...mafter, who keeps the mind in pleafmg captivity ; whofe M 4 pages pages are perufed with eagernefs, and in hope of new pleafure are perufed again ; and whofe... | |
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Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain, which the reader throws away. He only is the master, who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity; whose pages... 
