 | James Boswell - 1822 - 480 str.
...Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time ; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 472 str.
...Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time ; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college...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 5f... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, James Boswell - 1825 - 370 str.
...but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old HH tutor of a college said to one of his pupils: ' Read...Goldsmith's Abridgment is better than that of Lucius Floras, or Eutropins; and I will venture to say, that it you compare him with Vertot, in the same places... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 430 str.
...Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time ; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 622 str.
...Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time ; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. men of his age will not be forgotten by the curious....Famine " is a poem of no ordinary merit. It is, indeed, abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if... | |
 | George Moir - 1827 - 466 str.
...Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time ; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 str.
...Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time; hut Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. RED SIB, ' I HAVE called off my imagination a few moments from the ol his pupils: "Read over your compositions anil wherever you meet with a passage which you think is... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 612 str.
...Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 str.
...Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time ; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 str.
...Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time ; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. continuance of every language, however narrow in its...it may be always hereafter examined and compared wi abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say, that if you... | |
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... be buried under his own ornaments. 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.... 
