| James Boswell - 1884 - 634 페이지
...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...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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 506 페이지
...Roman History) 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...Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying everything he has to say, in a pleasing manner." 1 In the course of this year (1768) he drew up his... | |
| James Boswell - 1884 - 634 페이지
...that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, 1 in the same places of the Roman History, you will...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... | |
| James Boswell - 1885 - 492 페이지
...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...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 topick without ' observing,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 538 페이지
...Roman History) 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...Vertot. Sir, he -has the art of compiling, and of saying everything he has to say, in a pleasing manner." l In the course of this year (1768) he drew up his... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 페이지
...particularly fine, strike it out! "... Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying everything he bus rin, etc.; a French boy singing love-songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about us entertaining as a Persian talc.1 As a novelist, he wrote the- first pure example of simple domestic... | |
| Washington Irving - 1886 - 608 페이지
...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...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 win make it... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1886 - 582 페이지
...Introductions, Dr. Johnson, partly, founded his prediction with regard to the ' Animated Nature ': — " He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as interesting as a Persian tale " (Boswell, Standard Lib. edit. 1884, vol. ii., p. 223). Afterwards,... | |
| James Boswell - 1887 - 522 페이지
...that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot3, in the same places of the Roman History, you will...saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner 4. He is now writing a Natural History and will make it as entertaining as a Persian Tale.' Fifth :... | |
| James Boswell - 1887 - 500 페이지
...that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot3, in the same places of the Roman History, you will...of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner4. He is now writing a Natural History and will make it as entertaining as a Persian Tale.' Fifth... | |
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