 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1884 - 528 pages
...Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again . . . His abridgment (of the Roman History) is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius...saying everything he has to say, in a pleasing manner." * In the course of this year (1768) he drew up his ' Life of Parnell,' which was prefixed to an edition... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 pages
...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...saying everything 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." 1 Rend Aubert,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 506 pages
...Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again . . . His abridgment (of the Roman History) is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius...saying everything he has to say, in a pleasing manner." 1 In the course of this year (1768) he drew up his ' Life of Parnell,' which was prefixed to an edition... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 pages
...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;...Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 pages
...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;...venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, 1 in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 538 pages
...Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again . . . His abridgment (of the Roman History) is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius...everything he has to say, in a pleasing manner." l In the course of this year (1768) he drew up his 'Life of Parnell,' which was prefixed to an edition... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 pages
...composition, and, wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out! "... bus to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it us entertaining... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1886 - 608 pages
...you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out I' Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius;...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 512 pages
...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...venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot 3, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 500 pages
...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...will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot3, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has... | |
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Read over your compositions, and 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 compare him with... 
