David Hume. Rapin de Thoyras. Catherine Macaulay. James Ralph. James Macpherson. Nathaniel Hooke. Adam Ferguson. Edward Gibbon. Robert Orme. Oliver Goldsmith. Charles James Fox. Fragmentary historiansC. Scribner, 1855 |
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329 페이지 - An historian ! My dear sir, you surely will not rank his compilation of the Roman history with the works of other historians of this age.
330 페이지 - Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage 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 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 manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining...
33 페이지 - His face was broad and fat, his mouth wide, and without any other expression than that of imbecility. His eyes vacant and spiritless, and the corpulence of his whole person was far better fitted to communicate the idea of a turtle-eating Alderman, than of a refined philosopher. His speech, in English, was rendered ridiculous by the broadest Scotch accent, and his French was, if possible, still more laughable; so that wisdom, most certainly, never disguised herself before in so uncouth a garb.
329 페이지 - Sir, it is the great excellence of a writer to put into his book as much as his book will hold.
56 페이지 - My sister has since joined me, and keeps me company. With frugality, I can reach, I find, cleanliness, warmth, light, plenty and contentment ? What would you have more ? Independence ? I have it in a supreme degree. Honour ? That is not altogether wanting. Grace ? That will come in time. A wife? That is none of the indispensable requisites of life. Books ? That is one of them ; and I have more than I can use.
49 페이지 - I had been awake, and had scarce dozed again — on a sudden I felt my bolster lift up my head; I thought somebody was getting from under my bed, but soon found it was a strong earthquake, that lasted near half a minute, with a violent vibration and great roaring.
46 페이지 - Though I throw out my speculations to entertain the learned and metaphysical world, yet in other things I do not think so differently from the rest of the world as you imagine.
32 페이지 - Nature, I believe, never formed any man more unlike his real character than David Hume. The powers of physiognomy were baffled by his countenance ; neither could the most skilful in that science pretend to discover the smallest trace of the faculties of his mind in the unmeaning features of his visage.
329 페이지 - 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 old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils :
148 페이지 - You remember the story of Terentia, who was first married to Cicero, then to Sallust, and at last, in her old age, married a young nobleman, who imagined that she must possess some secret, which would convey to him eloquence and genius.