 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
 | Washington Irving - 1864 - 464 pages
...History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying everything he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing...and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale." The Natural History to which Johnson alluded was the " History of Animated Nature," which Goldsmith... | |
 | Washington Irving - Authors, Irish - 1868 - 486 pages
..."HISTORY OF ANIMATED NATURE." 257 Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying everything he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing...and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale." The Natural History to which Johnson alluded was the " History of Animated Nature," which Goldsmith... | |
 | John Seely Hart - English literature - 1872 - 654 pages
...work that Johnson threw out the remark which he afterwards interwove in his friend's epit:iph, — He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as agree:tble as a Persian tale." — iSVr Walter ¿Vo/i. accidente that are nojablo for stage effect.... | |
 | John Forster - 1873 - 806 pages
...meet with a pas" 'sage which you think is particularly "'fine, strike it out.'" Soswell, in. 280-1. " thing he has to say in a pleasing "manner. He is now...will make "it as entertaining as a , "Persian Tale." For this Natural History **• +1the first agreement dates as early as the close of February in the... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pages
...History, you will find that he excels 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 he will make it as entertaining as a Persian Tale.' I caunot dismiss the present topic without observing... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pages
...you meet with a passant which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius...and will make it as entertaining as a Persian Tale." I cannot dismiss the present topick without observing, that it is probable that Dr. Johnson, who owned... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pages
...History, you will find that he excels 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 he will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale." Thus nobly and generously would Johnson administer... | |
 | Alexander Main - Literary Criticism - 1874 - 480 pages
...History, you will find that he excels 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 he will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale." Thus nobly and generously would Johnson administer... | |
 | Alfred Webb - Ireland - 1878 - 616 pages
...who although he laughed at, yet loved and understood him, criticized him admirably in the remark : 'He is now writing a natural history, and will make- it as agreeable as a Persian tale.' " Concerning his sisters and brothers, Mr. Forster tells us that his... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English literature - 1880 - 182 pages
...particularly fine, strike it out !" . . . Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he h«s to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural...and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale.' As a novelist, he wrote the first pure example of simple domestic fiction. Its amusement is great,... | |
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