 | John Dryden - 1800 - 712 páginas
...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 are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again ; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, such... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 páginas
...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 are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again ; and whose Conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, such... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 páginas
...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 pa^es are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again ; and whose conclusion... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 páginas
...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 of new pleasure are perused again ; and whose conclusion is •perceived with an -eye of sorrow,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 páginas
...of attracting and detaining 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 ^perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again ; and whose conclusion... | |
 | Lodovico Ariosto - 1807 - 318 páginas
...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 of new pleasure are perused again; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, such... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 páginas
...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 are perused with eagerness, and in hoper of new pleasure are perused again ; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow,... | |
 | Walter Hutchinson Aston - 1811 - 324 páginas
...Song, has been edited ' • * Baviad and.Mseviad. •{• Loves of the Triangles, in particular. J He only is the Master, who keeps the mind in pleasing...captivity ; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again ; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, such... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 páginas
...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 are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again ; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, such... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 páginas
...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 are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again ; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye cf sorrow, such... | |
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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... 
