 | Lodovico Ariosto - 1807 - 318 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 - 1816 - 486 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 - 1819 - 644 էջ
...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 - 1820 - 466 էջ
...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 - 1820 - 476 էջ
...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 - 1823 - 652 էջ
...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... 
