 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1858 - 418 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 master who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope... | |
 | 1871 - 848 pages
...result. 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... | |
 | 1871 - 832 pages
...result. Works of imagination excel by their alluremont 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... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1871 - 866 pages
...result. 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 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 master who keeps < 1718. H the mind in pleasing captivity; whose pages are perused with eagerness,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1881 - 570 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 master, who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity ; whose pages are .perused with eagerness, and in... | |
 | 1882 - 816 pages
...their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That hook 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 Dennis - Poets, English - 1883 - 430 pages
...result. . . . 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 Dennis - Poets, English - 1883 - 426 pages
...result. . . . 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... | |
 | English periodicals - 1883 - 558 pages
...It no longer stands the author's own test for excellence of writing. " That book," wrote Johnson, " 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... | |
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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... 
