 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 24by James Boswell - 1922Full view - About this book
 | John Forster - Authors, Irish - 1903 - 482 pages
...History, you will find that he excells Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling and of saying everything he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing...and will make it as entertaining as a Persian Tale." For this Natural History the first agreement dates as early as the close of February in the present... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1903 - 336 pages
...History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying everything he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and 25 will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale." The Natural History to which Johnson alluded was... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pages
...compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. topick without observing, that it is probable that Dr. Johnson, who owned th,at he often ' talked for... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1906 - 324 pages
...of greater depth and scope. Dr. Johnson said, "He has the art of compiling and of saying everything he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing...and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale." In 1769 the King appointed Goldsmith Professor of Ancient History to the Royal Academy and Johnson... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1852
...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...pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and he will make it as entertaining as a Persian Tale." I cannot dismiss the present topic without observing,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 pages
...Robertson or the foppery of Dalrymple. . . . Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying everything he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing...and will make it as entertaining as a Persian Tale." . . . The gentlemen went away to their club, and I was left at Beauclerk's till the fate of my election... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...Robertson or the foppery of Dalrymple. . . . Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying everything he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing...and will make it as entertaining as a Persian Tale." . . . The gentlemen went away to their club, and I was left at Beauclerk's till the fate of my election... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...Robertson or the foppery of Dalrymple. . . . Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying everything he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing...and will make it as entertaining as a Persian Tale." . . . The gentlemen went away to their club, and I was left at Beauclerk's till the fate of my election... | |
 | James Boswell - 1912 - 106 pages
...History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying everything he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing...and will make it as entertaining as a Persian Tale." — Vol. Ill, p. 90. 1773 — .St. 64 The gentlemen went away to their club, and I was left at Beauclerk's... | |
 | James Boswell - Readers - 1916 - 370 pages
...doubtless, Goldsmith's History is better than the rerUaye of Robertson, or the foppery of Dalrymple. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian Tale." JOHNSON. "I remember once being with Goldsmith in Westminster-abbey. While we surveyed the Poet 's... | |
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