 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 238 pages
...will please again and agaia. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils: * Read over your compositions, and wherever...which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's Abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus, or Eutropius; and I will venture to say,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 526 pages
...an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils : ' Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 542 pages
...will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils : ' Read over your compositions, and wherever...which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 372 pages
...will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils : ' Read over your compositions ; and wherever...which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucins Floras, or Eutropins ; and I will venture to... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 384 pages
...will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils : ' Read over your compositions ; and wherever you meet with a passage which you think IK particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucins Floras,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pages
...what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils; ' Read over your compositions and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucins f torns or Eutropins ; and I will venture to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 376 pages
...will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils : ' Read over your compositions, and wherever...which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say,... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 372 pages
...please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of bis pupils : ' Read over your compositions ; and Wherever...which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus, or Eutropius ; and I will venture to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 480 pages
...will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils : ' Read over your compositions, and wherever...which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 472 pages
...will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils : ' Read over your compositions, and wherever...which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say,... | |
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Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils : ' Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike... 
