 | James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pągines
...shortly all you want to know : Robertson detains you a great deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time ; but Goldsmith's plain...college said to one of his pupils : ' Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet \vith a passage which you think is particularly fine, 1773. strike... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 238 pągines
...Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time; but Goldsmith's plain' narrative will please again and agaia. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils: * Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it... | |
 | John Selden - 1818 - 678 pągines
...shortly all you want to know; Robertson detains you a great deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time; but Goldsmith's plain...college said to one of his pupils: ' Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet \nt\va ^assa^e. Vw\sV "javx think is LITERATURE. 217 particularly... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 384 pągines
...shortly all you want to know : Robertson detains you a deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time; but Goldsmith's plain...college said to one of his pupils : ' Read over your compositions ; and wherever you meet with a passage which you think IK particularly fine, strike it... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pągines
...all you want to know ; Robertson detains you a deal too long No men will read Robertson's cumbrons detail a second time; but Goldsmith's plain narrative...college said to one of his pupils; ' Read over your compositions and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 382 pągines
...Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils : ' Read over your compositions ; and wherever you meet with a passage which you think...out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucins Florus, or Eutropins ; and I will venture to say, that if yon compare him with Vertot, in the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 376 pągines
...shortly all you want to know: Robertson detains you a great deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time; but Goldsmith's plain...college said to one of his pupils : ' Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it... | |
 | 1821 - 372 pągines
...shortly all you want to know : Robertson detains you a deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time; but Goldsmith's plain...Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of bis pupils : ' Read over your compositions ; and Wherever you meet with a passage which you think is... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 472 pągines
...shortly all you want to know : Robertson detains you a great deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time ; but Goldsmith's plain...college said to one of his pupils : ' Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 pągines
...shortly all you want to know ; Robertson detains you a great deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time ; but Goldsmith's plain...college said to one of his pupils : « Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it... | |
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Goldsmith tells you shortly all you want to know ; Robertson detains you a great deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time ; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. 
