 Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing...  The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 26by James Boswell - 1922Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1186 pages
...compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every...entertaining as a Persian tale." I cannot dismiss the present topick without observing, that it is probable that Dr. Johnson, who owned that he often " talked for... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1834 - 492 pages
...work that Johnson threw out the remark which he afterwards interwove in his friend's epitaph, — " He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as agreeable as a Persian Tale." But the period of his labours was now near. Goldsmith had for some time... | |
 | Walter Scott - France - 1834 - 506 pages
...work that Johnson threw out the remark which he afterwards interwove in his friend's epitaph, — " He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as agreeable as a Persian Tale." But the period of his labours was now near. Goldsmith had for some time... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every...entertaining as a Persian tale." I cannot dismiss the present topick without observing, that it is probable that Dr. Johnson, who owned that he often " talked for... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 346 pages
...compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every...and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale." urged plausible objections to Dr. Robertson's excellent historical works, in the ardour of contest,... | |
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...compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. am going off, I shall certainly be locked up, or sent...all kinds are damned bad things. But what can I do ? can not dismiss the present topic (continues . . , . . Mr. Boswell) without observing, that Dr. Johnson,... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors, English - 1837 - 604 pages
...compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every...and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale." A translation of the Roman History into French, appeared many years ago; and in 1805, a second, with... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors, English - 1837 - 600 pages
...compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every...and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale." A translation of the Roman History into French, appeared many years ago ; and in 1805, a second with... | |
 | Sir James Prior - English literature - 1837 - 604 pages
...compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every...and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale." A translation of the Roman History into French, appeared many years ago; and in 1805, a second with... | |
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...JOHNSON said of Goldsmith, when he was engaged in his history of Animated Nature, " he has the art of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing...and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale." Irving, too, not less a master of English prose, touches nothing that he does not adorn, — Nihil... | |
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