 | Saturday night - 1824 - 968 pages
...that the merit of great works is to be estimated ; but by their general effects and ultimate result. Works of imagination excel by their allurement and...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 hopes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...parts may be subducted from the whole, and the reader may be weary, though the critick may commend. Works of imagination ' excel by their allurement and...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 pages
...parts may be subducted from the whole, and the reader may be weary, though the critick may commend. Works of imagination excel by their allurement and...book is good in vain, which the reader throws away. He^only is the master, who keeps the mind in pjeasing^caplisity ; whose pages are perused with eagerness,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1826 - 430 pages
...from the whole, and the reader may be weary, though the critic may commend. Works of imagination «ted by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. Thai book is good in vain which the reader throws away. He only is the master whs keeps the mind in... | |
 | John Genest - Theater - 1832 - 686 pages
...whole this Tragedy with all its merits, is somewhat dull and unaffecting — " Works of ima" gination excel by their allurement and delight, by " their power of attracting and detaining the atten" tion. He only is the master, who keeps the mind " in pleasing captivity, whose pages are perused... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 pages
...parts may be subducted from the whole, and the reader may be weary, though the critic may commend. Works of imagination excel by their allurement and...attracting and detaining the attention. That book ia pood in vain which the reader throws away. He only is the master who keeps the mind in pleasing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1838 - 716 pages
...parts mny be subducted from the whole, and the reader may be weary, though the critic may commend. Works of imagination excel by their allurement and...That book is good in vain which the reader throws awav. He only is the master who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity ; whose pages are perused with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1840 - 522 pages
...parts may be subducted from the whole, and the reader may be weary, though the critic may commend. Works of imagination excel by their allurement and...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pages
...parts mav be subducted from the whole, and the reader may be weary, though the critic maj commend. down 1* wliich the reader throws awav. He only is the master who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity ; whose... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 pages
...the critic may commend. Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their rx>wer of attracting and detaining the attention. That book...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... | |
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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... 
