 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 216 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 20 'with eagerness, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1913 - 220 pagina’s
...but unlike the two preceding rules, it cannot always be applied to literature of every other kind. ' 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... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - 346 pagina’s
...by 2a!ed ^ . •* their general their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting effects. and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain, which the reader throws away. S. JOHNSON, Lives of the Poets (Dryderi), 1779-1781. I do not however think it safe to judge of works... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - 1922 - 522 pagina’s
...weary, though the critic may commend. Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; r • by their power of attracting and detaining the attention....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, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 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... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pagina’s
...170, 186, 189. 69 See Notes 57, 64, 123, 166, 177, 195, 223. 70 Cf, for example, in the Life ofDryden: Works of imagination excel by their allurement and...book is good in vain which the reader throws away.... By his proportion of this predomination I will consent that Dryden be tried — of this which, in...... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 pagina’s
...administers to the pleasure that Johnson finds necessary to all reading ("Works of imagination excell by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention" [I, 454]), and it issues into the paradoxical qualities that define the essence of all Dryden's writing... | |
 | Trevor Thornton Ross - 1998 - 412 pagina’s
...definitively related to the fundamental source of value in general nature. These features could be useful in "attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain which the reader throws away."93 Yet this implied that a book could be "good" without these features, even if the reader threw... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 pagina’s
...Dryden's writing has the effect of a sensuous and compelling pleasure ("Works of imagination excell by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention . . . He only is the master who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity; whose pages are perused with... | |
 | 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... 
