 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
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1892 - 220 pagina’s
...performer on the pianoforte. How good was the advice given by " the old tutor of a college to one of his pupils — " Read over your compositions, and wherever...which you think is particularly fine, strike it out." 1 But in this particular brilliant style which I am 1 Boswell's " Life of Johnson," ii. 237. IV.- BRILLIANT... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1892 - 220 pagina’s
...performer on the pianoforte. How good was the advice given by " the old tutor of a college to one of his pupils—" Read over your compositions, and wherever...which you think is particularly fine, strike it out" * But in this particular brilliant style which I am attacking there is nothing but bright-coloured... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1894 - 342 pagina’s
...be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young." Johnson: An old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils, "Read over your compositions, and wherever...which you think is particularly fine strike it out." A gentleman who introduced his brother to Dr. Johnson was earnest to recommend him to the doctor's... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pagina’s
...strike out three. Nicolas Boileau (1636-1711) French poet, critic Read your own compositions, and when you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer Art should simplify . . . finding what... | |
 | Robie Macauley, George Lanning - 1990 - 296 pagina’s
...to Oxford undergraduates since the eighteenth century: "Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out." Pronouncements like these could be multiplied, but they would do little more than amplify three common... | |
 | Linda D. Swink - 1997 - 264 pagina’s
...written before their manuscripts leave their desk for the mailbox. Poet and essayist Samuel Johnson said, "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet...which you think is particularly fine, strike it out." It's difficult to chop away at those wonderfully elegant phrases and words you labored over for days,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pagina’s
...Filmgoer's Companion (1984). Note attached to rejected script. Read your own compositions, and when you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. SAMUEL JOHNSON, (1709-1784) British author, lexicographer. Quoted in James Boswell, Life of Dr. lohnson,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1998 - 1540 pagina’s
...of his pupils: "Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you thmk is particularly fine, strike it out." Goldsmith's...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... | |
 | Gordon Martel - 1999 - 304 pagina’s
...he never, when fashioning his epigrams, recall the advice that Johnson ascribes to a college tutor: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet...which you think is particularly fine, strike it out"? Of course, we would have been lexicographically the poorer had he done so. All the same, the best-advised... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 pagina’s
...Badly', in The Bookmark 21:46 [quoting a college tutor] Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. Samuel Johnson, 1773, in lames Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) 21:47 Alas! sir, what can... | |
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