...frequently of the sense. Had his lordship followed the advice of a worthy old college tutor to his pupils, " Read over your compositions, and wherever...which you think is particularly fine, strike it out," the quality of the works would have been certainly benefited, though the quantity would have been reduced...

...know ; while Robertson was fanciful, cumbrous, and diffuse. " Goldsmith's abridgement," he weot on, " 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 Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot....

...Robertson what an%pld tutor of a college said to one of his pupils: "Read over your compositions aml 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...

...please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils: ' Read over your compositions, and wherever...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...

...please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his he Lamb there. — Will nobody answer? To the Dolphin;...outrageous this half hour. Did your ladyship call, madam? abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius : and I will venture to say, that if you...

...whenever you meet with a passage, which you think 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 Robertson in the same places of the Roman history, you will find that he excels...

...crushed with his own weight, and buried under his own ornaments. ' Goldsmith's abridge' ment,' he added, '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 His' tori!, you will find that he excels...

...crushed with his own weight, and buried under his own ornaments. ' Goldsmith's abridge' ment,' he added, '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 His' tory, you will find that he excels...

...crushed with his own weight, aud buried under his own ornaments. ' Goldsmith's abridge' ment/ he added, '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 His' tory, you will find that he excels...

...of a college said to one of his pupils: 'Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with i passage which you think is particularly fine strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement ii better than that of Lucius Floras or Eutro pius ; and I will venture to say, that if yoi compare...