...Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot in the eame places of the Roman History, you will find that he...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...

...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." The Natural History to which Johnson alluded was the " History of Animated Nature," which Goldsmith...

...you meet with a passage 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." Boswell adds: "I cannot dismiss the present topic without observing that it is probable that Dr. Johnson,...

...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." I cannot dismiss the present topic without observing, that it is probable that Dr. Johnson, who owned...

...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." 1 Rend Aubert, Sieur de Vertot, born of an ancient Norman family, Nov. 25, 1655, died at Paris, June...

...you meet with a passage which you think particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius...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,...

...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...

...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 win make it as entertaining as a Persian tale." The Natural History to which Johnson alluded was the...

...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,...

...Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of 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 : — ' Here is a quarto volume of 3 ' Vertot, ne' en Normandie en eight or ten shillings' price,...