 | James Boswell - 1791 - 556 pages
...will venture to fay, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the fame places of the Roman Hiftory, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of faying every thing he has to fay in a pleafing manner. He is now writing a Natural Hiftory, and will... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Anecdotes - 1798 - 464 pages
...I will venture to &y, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the feme places of the Roman Hiftory, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of faying every think he has to fay in a pleating manner. He is now writing a Natural Hiftory, and will... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pages
...abridgement is better ^^"g^ than that of Lucius 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 fihd that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say... | |
 | Missions - 1825 - 618 pages
...as much as his book will bold. Goldsmith has done this. He tells you shortly all you want to know. He has the art of compiling and of saying every thing he has to say i» a pleasing manner." How far this character is just, we will not pretend at this late period to... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 384 pages
...abridgement is better than that of Lucins Floras, or Eutropins ; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of...you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the act of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 372 pages
...abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus, or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if yon compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the...the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he lias to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining... | |
 | James Boswell - 1823 - 486 pages
...Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of...has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural^History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian Tale." I cannot dismiss the present... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 762 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 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... | |
 | George Moir - Anecdotes - 1827 - 466 pages
...abridgement is better than that of Lucius Floras, or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of...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 will make it... | |
| |
Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius 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... 
