 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...ofDryden: 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.... By his proportion of this predomination I will consent that Dryden be tried — of this which, in...... | |
 | Trevor Thornton Ross - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 412 pages
...to the fundamental source of value in general nature. These features could be useful in "attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain which the reader throws away."93 Yet this implied that a book could be "good" without these features, even if the reader threw... | |
 | Arthur Howard Galton - 1897 - 140 pages
...faculties. " 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 a pleasing captivity ; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in... | |
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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... 
