 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
 | Ann Messenger - 1986 - 208 стор.
...Thinking In the Life of Dryden Johnson offers the following image to characterize the author of genius: "He only is the master who keeps the mind in pleasing...such as the traveller casts upon departing day."' The larger Johnsonian territory onto which this image of pleasing captivity opens and for which it... | |
 | Catherine Neal Parke - 1991 - 212 стор.
...characterize the mind of genius, Johnson similarly proposes that genuine repetition constitutes true pleasure: "He only is the master who keeps the mind in pleasing...sorrow, such as the traveller casts upon departing day" (LP 1:454). This passage with its figure of pleasing captivity opens out onto his hope for ongoing... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 стор.
...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...eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again"; para. 312). t2 On another, Dryden writes so unusually well that he leaves behind few traces that might... | |
 | 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... | |
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