 | 1735 - Počet stránok 682
...'ertimated. ' 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 matter who keeps the mind in plcafing captivity; whofe pages are perufed with eagernels, and in hope... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - Počet stránok 376
...may commend. 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 maftcr, who keeps the mind in pleafing captivity ; whofe pages are perufed with eagernefs, and in hope... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1772 - Počet stránok 388
...commend. 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 matter, who keeps the mind in pleafing captivity ', whofe pages are perufed with eagernefs, and in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - Počet stránok 484
...commend. Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in...away. He only is the mafter, who keeps the mind in pleating captivity ; whofe pages are perufed with eagernefs, and in hope of new pleafure are perufed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - Počet stránok 476
...is good in vain, which the reader throws away. He only is the mafter, who keeps the mind in pleating captivity ; whofe pages are perufed with eagernefs,...hope of new pleafure are perufed again; and whofe conclulion is perceived with an eye of forrow, fuch as the traveller cafts upon departing day. By his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - Počet stránok 484
.... -\"* *. • i > ."• 'f , " "and delight'; iyy their power of attracting Jng and detaining ther attention," That book is good in vain, which the reader...away. He only is the mafter, who keeps the mind in pleating captivity; whofe pages are perafed with eagerriefs, and jh hbpe of new pleafure are perufed... | |
 | Lodovico Ariosto - 1785 - Počet stránok 454
...eftimated. '* 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 matter who keeps the mind in pleating captivity; whofe pages are perufed with eagernefs, and in hope... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - Počet stránok 494
...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 ; whofe pages are perufed with eagernefs, and in hope of new pleafure are perufed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - Počet stránok 478
...may commend. Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in...away. He only is the mafter, who keeps the mind in pleafing captivity - r whofe pages are perufed with eagernefs, and in hope of new pleafure are perufed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1794 - Počet stránok 450
...commend. Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in...mafter, who keeps the mind in pleafmg captivity ; whofe M 4 pages pages are perufed with eagernefs, and in hope of new pleafure are perufed again ; and whofe... | |
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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... 
