 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...  Macmillan's Magazine - Сторінка 4081883Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Arthur Howard Galton - 1897 - 140 стор.
...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 a pleasing captivity ; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 216 стор.
...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...mind in pleasing captivity ; whose pages are perused 20 'with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again ; and whose conclusion is perceived... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1900 - 398 стор.
...Progress and Robinson Crusoe, the Autobiography of' Edward Gibbon was henceforth to rank as " a work whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, such as the traveller casts upon departing day". It is indeed so short that it can be read by the light of a single pair of candles; it is so interesting... | |
 | 1906 - 866 стор.
...be engrossing. He disconcerts me by some of his endings. "He only is the master," says Dr. Johnson, "who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in the hope of new pleasure are perused again," but— though Dr. Johnson doesn't say "but" — whose... | |
 | John Dennis - 1910 - 126 стор.
...so often worshipped, to be reminded of Samuel Johnson. HIS WORKS book is good in vain which the -I- reader throws away; he only is the master who keeps...sorrow such as the traveller casts upon departing day." This fine passage occurs in the "Life of Dryden : " and the question arises whether Johnson's works,... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 стор.
...Progress," and "Robinson Crusoe," the "Autobiography of Edward Gibbon" was henceforth to rank as "a work ove— had never entered his mind, for since his last It is indeed so short that it can be read by the light of a single pair of candles; it is so interesting... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1913 - 220 стор.
...their 30 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 1 1718. H the mind in pleasing captivity; i\hose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - 1922 - 522 стор.
...allurement and delight ; r • by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain, which the reader throws away. He...sorrow, such as the traveller casts upon departing day. By his proportion of this predomination I will consent that Dryden should be tried ; of this, which,... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 346 стор.
...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...sorrow, such as the traveller casts upon departing day." 1 i. Lives, I,454. JOHNSON AND BOILEAU , J ' In this Johnson, in contrast to his occasional practices-.^-... | |
 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 стор.
...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...sorrow, such as the traveller casts upon departing day. By his proportion of this predomination I will consent IQ that Dryden should be tried ; of this, which,... | |
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