 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pagina’s
...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...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... | |
 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 480 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | John Forster - 1877 - 526 pagina’s
...; and I will ven"ture to say that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same " places of the Homan 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 will make... | |
 | Alfred Webb - 1878 - 616 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | William Black - 1879 - 180 pagina’s
...Johnson declared, " 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...saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. ' ' So thought the booksellers too ; and the success of the . Roman History only involved him in fresh... | |
 | 1880 - 556 pagina’s
...Johnson declared, " 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, yon will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 pagina’s
...and, wherever you meet with a passage which you think is 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 History, and will make it as entertaining... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 714 pagina’s
...or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot in the same places ot the Roman 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 will make it... | |
 | William Black - 1883 - 268 pagina’s
...Johnson declared, "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...Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying everything he has to say in a pleasing manner." So thought the booksellers too ; and the success of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1884 - 528 pagina’s
...Roman History) 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...Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying everything he has to say, in a pleasing manner." * In the course of this year (1768) he drew up his... | |
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Goldsmith's abridgement 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... 
