 | James Boswell - 1907 - 626 pagina’s
...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...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852
...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...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 topic without observing,... | |
 | Frank Frankfort Moore - 1910 - 534 pagina’s
...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...Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying everything that he has to say in a pleasing manner." While any one accustomed to Boswell's methods... | |
 | Richard Ashe King - 1910 - 370 pagina’s
...or Eutropius; and, I will venture to say that, if you compare him with Vertot in the same places of 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1912 - 106 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 will make it... | |
 | William Black - 1918 - 182 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1921 - 574 pagina’s
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 | Arthur Lytton Sells - 1924 - 254 pagina’s
...recevoir cent guinées par volume. (4) « Sir, he has thé art of compiling, and of saying everything he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will moke il as entertaining as a Peitsian taie » (Boswell, Li[eo[ Johnson, éd. 1816, t. IH p. 243). LES... | |
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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... 
