 | 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 - 1779 - 364 pages
...detaining the attention. .That book is good in vain, which the reader throws away. He only is the maftor, who keeps the mind in pleafing -captivity ; whofe pages are perufed with eagcrnefs, and in hope of new pleafure are perufed again ; and whole conclufion is perceived with an... | |
 | 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 - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...only is the mafter, who keeps the mind in pleating captivity ; whofe pages are perufed with cagernefs, and in hope of new pleafure are perufed again ; and whofe conclufion is perceived with an eye of forrow, fuch as the traveller cafts upon departing day. By his proportion of this predomination I will... | |
 | 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... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 344 pages
...commend. Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attrafting and detaining the attention. That book is good in...away. He only is the mafter, who keeps the mind in pleafmg 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...the mafter, who keeps the mind in pleafing captivity - r whofe pages are perufed with eagernefs, and in hope of new pleafure are perufed again ; and whofe... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 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...keeps the mind in pleafing captivity; whofe pages are perilled with eagerneis, and in hope of new pleafure are perufed again ; and and whofe conclufion is... | |
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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... 
