 | 1735 - 682 pages
...of every poet ought to be 'ertimated. ' Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention....vain which the reader throws away. He only is the matter who keeps the mind in plcafing captivity; whofe pages are perufed with eagernels, and in hope... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1772 - 388 pages
...weary, though the critick may commend. Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention....vain, which the reader throws away. He only is the matter, who keeps the mind in pleafing captivity ', whofe pages are perufed with eagernefs, and in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 364 pages
...wearyj though the crifick maycommend. Works of imagination. excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention....vain, which the reader throws away. He only is the maftor, who keeps the mind in pleafing -captivity ; whofe pages are perufed with eagcrnefs, and in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 376 pages
...detaining the attention. That book is good in vain, which the reader throws away. He only is the maftcr, who keeps the mind in pleafing captivity ; whofe pages are perufed with eagernefs, and in hope of new plcafure are perufed again; and whofe conclufionis perceived with an eye of forrow, fuch as the traveller... | |
 | Lodovico Ariosto - 1785 - 454 pages
...of every poet ought to be eftimated. '* Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention....vain which the reader throws away. He only is- the matter who keeps the mind in pleating captivity; whofe pages are perufed with eagernefs, and in hope... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...weary, though the critick may coni mend. Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vaiii, which the reader throws away. He only is the mafter, who keeps the mind in pleafirig captivity... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pages
...weary, though the critick may com fnend. Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good hi vairf, which the reader thf ows away. He only is the mafter, who keeps the mind in pleating captivity... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 344 pages
...commend. Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attrafting and detaining the attention. That book is good in...away. He only is the mafter, who keeps the mind in pleafmg captivity ; whofe pages are perufed with eagernefs, and in hope of new pleafure are perufed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...weary, though the critick may commend. Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention....the mafter, who keeps the mind in pleafing captivity - r whofe pages are perufed with eagernefs, and in hope of new pleafure are perufed again ; and whofe... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 pages
...weary, though the critick may commend. Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention....keeps the mind in pleafing captivity; whofe pages are perilled with eagerneis, and in hope of new pleafure are perufed again ; and and whofe conclufion is... | |
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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... 
