| James Boswell - 1807 - 526 pages
...fancy. Robertson paints minds as Sir Joshua paints faces in a history-piece : he imagines an heroick countenance. You must look upon Robertson's work as...of his pupils : ' Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pages
...fancy. Robertson paints minds as Sir Joshua paints faces in a history-piece : he imagines an heroick countenance. You must look upon ^Robertson's work...of his pupils : ' Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet \vith a passage which you think is particularly fine, 1773. strike it out.' Goldsmith's... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 238 pages
...Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time; but Goldsmith's plain' narrative will please again and agaia. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college...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... | |
| John Selden - 1818 - 678 pages
...fancy. Robertson paints minds as Sir Joshua paints faces in a history-piece; he imagines an heroic countenance. You must look upon Robertson's work as...Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet \nt\va ^assa^e. Vw\sV "javx think is LITERATURE. 217 particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 542 pages
...wool : the wool takes up more room than the gold. No, Sir; I always thought Robertsou would becrushed by his own weight — would be buried under his own...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... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 372 pages
...under his own ornaments. Goldsmith tells you shortly all you want to know : Robertson detains you a. deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous...out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucins Floras, or Eutropins ; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 384 pages
...under his own ornaments. Goldsmith tells you shortly all you want to know : Robertson detains you a deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous...and wherever you meet with a passage which you think IK particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucins Floras,... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pages
...all you want to know ; Robertson detains you a deal too long No men will read Robertson's cumbrons detail a second time; but Goldsmith's plain narrative...one of his pupils; ' Read over your compositions and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's... | |
| 1821 - 372 pages
...under his own ornaments. Goldsmith tells you shortly all you want to know : Robertson detains you a deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous...Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of bis pupils : ' Read over your compositions ; and Wherever you meet with a passage which you think is... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 pages
...fancy. Robertson paints minds as Sir Joshua paints faces in a history-piece : he imagines a heroic countenance. You must look upon Robertson's work as...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... | |
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