 | John Buxton - 1978 - 216 pagina’s
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 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 pagina’s
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 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 pagina’s
...this work that Johnson threw out the remark which he afterwards interwove in his friend's epitaph, — 'He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as agreeable as a Persian Tale.' . . Excepting some short Tales, Goldsmith gave to the department of the... | |
 | James Boswell - 2005 - 584 pagina’s
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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... 
