 | 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...away. He only is the mafter, who keeps the mind in pleafing captivity; whofe pages are perilled with eagerneis, and in hope of new pleafure are perufed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...commend. Works of imagination excel by (heir 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 pa^es are perused with eagerness, and in hope... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 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 master, who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity ; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope... | |
 | John Dryden - English prose literature - 1800 - 712 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 master, who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity ; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 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 pleafing captivity ; w'hofe pages are perufed with eagernefs, and in hope 1 of new pleafure are perufed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...He tfoat merely makes a book from books, may lie useful^ but can scarcely be great. Life of Butler* 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 are perused with eagerness, and in hope... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 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 jtader throws away. He only is the master, who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity ; whose pa^es are... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pages
...imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining jhe attention. That book is good in vain which the reader throws away. He only is the maiter who keeps the mind in pleafing captivity; whofe pages are perufed with eagernefs, and in hope... | |
 | Lodovico Ariosto - Roland (Legendary character) - 1807 - 318 pages
...Works of imagination excel by their allurements and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining 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 are perused with eagerness, and in hope... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...commend. Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting itaph, which Jacob transcribed : HSE GEOKCIUS SnniEius, Armiger, Vir Ob Ingenii acumen, Literarum S master who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope... | |
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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... 
