 Goldsmith tells you shortly all you want to know ; Robertson detains you a great deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time ; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an...  Selections from Boswell's Life of Johnson - Page 52by James Boswell - 1912 - 93 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 554 pages
...you meet with a pafTage which you think is particularly fine, ftrike it out.' Goldfmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to fay, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the fame places of the Roman Hiftory, you will find that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Anecdotes - 1798 - 464 pages
...you meet with a paflage which you think is particularly fine, ftrike it out.' Goldfmith's Abridgement is better than that of Lucius florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to &y, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the feme places of the Roman Hiftory, you will find that... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pages
...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 where ever you meet \vith a passage which you think is particularly fine, 1773. strike it out.' Goldsmith's... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 526 pages
...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 where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...Goldsmith's plain narrative will plexse again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of ii college said to one of his pupils; « Read over your compositions and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly tine, •trike it out.' Goldsmith's... | |
 | John Selden - Religion and state - 1818 - 678 pages
...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 \nt\va ^assa^e. Vw\sV "javx think is LITERATURE. 217 particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 382 pages
...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...is particularly fine, strike It out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucins Florus, or Eutropins ; and I will venture to say, that if... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 384 pages
...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...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 say, that if... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 376 pages
...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...is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if... | |
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