 | Samuel Johnson - 1881 - 570 pagina’s
...-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... | |
 | 1882 - 816 pagina’s
...the 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...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... | |
 | John Dennis - 1883 - 430 pagina’s
...the merit of great works is to be estimated, but by their general effects and ultimate result. . . . 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 Dennis - 1883 - 426 pagina’s
...the merit of great works is to be estimated, but by their general effects and ultimate result. . . . 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... | |
 | 1883 - 558 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 356 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 pagina’s
...Instructive, because they are heard with patience and with reverence. 642 Johnson : The Rambler. Ho. 87. 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... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 pagina’s
...because they are heard with patience and with reverence. 542 Jolmoon: The Rambler. No. 87. 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 234 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Arthur Howard Galton - 1897 - 140 pagina’s
...Art of Writing is to give pleasure, and to satisfy as many as possible of our highest faculties. " Works of imagination excel by their allurement and...vain, which the reader throws away. He only is the master, who keeps the mind in a pleasing captivity ; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in... | |
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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... 
