| 1735 - 682 páginas
...'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 - 376 páginas
...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 - 388 páginas
...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 - 484 páginas
...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 - 476 páginas
...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 - 484 páginas
.... -\"* *. • 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 - 454 páginas
...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 - 494 páginas
...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 - 478 páginas
...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 - 450 páginas
...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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