 Read over your compositions, and wherever 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 ; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with...  The British Prose Writers - Pagina 351821Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | James Whiteside - 1868 - 498 pagina’s
...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 Vertot, in the same places of the Roman history, you will find that he excels... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pagina’s
...pleau: again and ¿i^oin. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils : " Read over your compositions, and wherever...meet with a passage which you think is particularly tine, strike it out." Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or KuUopius ; and... | |
 | John Forster - 1873 - 806 pagina’s
...crushed with his own weight, and buried under his owji ornaments. "Goldsmith's "abridgement," he added, "is "better than that of Lucius "Florus or Eutropius; and I will "venture to say that if you com"pare him with Vertot, in the "same places of the Roman His"tory, you will find that he excels... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pagina’s
...tutor of a college said to one of his pupils : " Read over your compositions, and wherever you mcet ith innumerable passages of the elassies. In this series of essays he exhibits a abridgment is better than that of Lucius Floras or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if you... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pagina’s
...College said to one of his pupils: ' Read over your composition, and wherever you meet with a passant which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.'...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... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pagina’s
...please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils : ' Read over your compositions, and wherever...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... | |
 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 480 pagina’s
...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 Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels... | |
 | 1880 - 556 pagina’s
...very well received by the critics and by the public. "Goldsmith's abridgment," 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... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 pagina’s
...to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils, "Read over your composition, 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.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 952 pagina’s
...what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils, ' Read over your compositions, and, whenever 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... | |
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