 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 pages
...parts, may be fubducted 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 mafter, who keeps the mind in pleafing captivity; whofe pages are perilled with eagerneis, and in hope... | |
 | Samuel Bishop - 1796 - 410 pages
...« power of pleafing; and I heartily fubfcribe to the opinion of Dr. Johnfon*, that " Works of the imagination excel by their allurement and delight...power of attracting and detaining " the attention :" — and that " he ,only is the mafter, who keeps the mind in pleafing captivity ; whofe pages are... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 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... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 670 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 - 1800 - 714 pages
...whole, and the reader may be weary, though the critick may commend. Works of imagination excel by (heir allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...parts may be fubducted 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 mafter, who keeps the mind in pleafing captivity ; w'hofe pages are perufed with eagernefs, and in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 308 pages
...weary, though the critick may commend Works of imagination excel by their allurement and de-- light; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention....vain, which the reader throws away. He only is the mafter, who keeps the mind in pleafing captivity ; whofe pages are perufed with eagernefs, and in hope... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 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...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 - 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pages
...parts may be fubducted from the whole, and the reader may be weary, though the critick may commend. Works of 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... | |
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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... 
