 | 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 582 pages
...parts may be fubdu6led from the whole, and the reader may be weary, though the critick may commend. Works of imagination excel by their allurement and...vain, which the reader throws away. He only is the mailer, who keeps the mind in pleafing captivity ; whofe pages are pernfed with eagernefs, and in hope... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...parts may be subducted from the whole, and the reader may be weary, though the critick may commend. Works of imagination excel by their allurement and...book is good in vain which the reader throws away. He •nly is the master who keeps the mind in pleasing «optivity ; whose pages are perused with eagerness,... | |
 | John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton - 1811 - 642 pages
...parts may be ftibdu6ted from the whole, and the reader may be weary, though the critick may commend. Works of imagination excel by their allurement and...That book is good in vain, which the reader throws a\vay. He only is the matter, who keeps the mind in pleating captivity ; whole pages are perufed with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 486 pages
...parts may be subducted from the whole, and the reader may be weary, though the critick may commend. Works of imagination excel by their allurement and...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 - 1818 - 410 pages
...parts may be subducted from the whole, and the reader may be weary, though the critick may commend. Works of imagination excel by their allurement and...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 - 1819 - 644 pages
...may be subducted from the whole, and the reader may be weary, though the critic may commend. \Vorb of imagination excel by their allurement and delight...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, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 466 pages
...parts may be subducted from the whole, and the reader may be weary, though the critic may commend. Works of imagination excel by their allurement and...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, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 476 pages
...from the whole, and the reader may be weary, though the critick may commend. Works of ima- J gination excel by their allurement and delight ; by ' their power of attracting and detaining the at-^ tention. That book is good in vain, which the reader throws away. He only is the master, who keeps... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 652 pages
...parts may be subducted from the whole, and the reader may be weary, though the critick may commend. Works of imagination excel by their allurement and...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... 
