 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...  Essays and Lectures: Historical and Literary - Page 292by James Whiteside - 1868 - 478 pagesFull view - About this book
 | sir James Prior - 1837 - 604 pages
...what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils, ' Read over your compositions, and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly...and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale." A translation of the Roman History into French, appeared many years ago; and in 1805, a second with... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors, Irish - 1837 - 606 pages
...what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils, ' Read over your compositions, and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly...and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale." A translation of the Roman History into French, appeared many years ago; and in 1805, a second with... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors, English - 1837 - 600 pages
...what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils, ' Read over your compositions, and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly...and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale." A translation of the Roman History into French, appeared many years ago; and in 1805, a second with... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors, English - 1837 - 604 pages
...think is particularly fine, strike it out!' Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Floras or Eutropius; and I will venture to say, that if you...and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale." A translation of the Roman History into French, appeared many years ago; and in 1805, a second, with... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors, English - 1837 - 600 pages
...is particularly fine, strike it out ! ' Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Floras or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if...and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale." A translation of the Roman History into French, appeared many years ago ; and in 1805, a second with... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 pages
...abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius : and I will venture to say, that if yon never saw Tony so sprightly before. Ah "I can not dismiss the present topic (continues . . , . . Mr. Boswell) without observing, that Dr.... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1837 - 522 pages
...JOHNSON said of Goldsmith, when he was engaged in his history of Animated Nature, " he has the art of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing...and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale." Irving, too, not less a master of English prose, touches nothing that he does not adorn, — Nihil... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors - 1837 - 564 pages
...Roman History, you will f nd that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of faying every thing he has to say, in a pleasing manner. He...and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale." A translation of the Roman History into French, appeared many years ago; and in 1805, a second with... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors - 1837 - 558 pages
...Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of faying every thing he has to say, in a pleasing m inner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale." A translation of the Roman History into French, appeared many years ago; and in 1805, a second with... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1837 - 520 pages
...of Animated Nature, " he has the art 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 as a Persian tale." Irving, too, not less a master of English prose, touches nothing that he does not adorn,—Nihil tetigit... | |
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