| James Boswell - 1912 - 106 ÆäÀÌÁö
...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... | |
| William Black - 1918 - 182 ÆäÀÌÁö
...Johnson declared, "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." So thought the booksellers too ; and the success of... | |
| Arthur Lytton Sells - 1924 - 254 ÆäÀÌÁö
...recevoir cent guinées par volume. (4) « Sir, he has thé art of compiling, and of saying everything he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will moke il as entertaining as a Peitsian taie » (Boswell, Li[eo[ Johnson, éd. 1816, t. IH p. 243). LES... | |
| G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 ÆäÀÌÁö
...this 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.' . . Excepting some short Tales, Goldsmith gave to the department of the... | |
| 1868 - 802 ÆäÀÌÁö
...abridgment is better than that of Lucius Floras or Eatropias ; and I will venture to say that, if yon compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, yon will find that he excela Vertot. Sir, he ha3 the art of compiling, and of saying everything he... | |
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