 | James Boswell - 1835 - 348 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 Floras or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 346 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... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 558 str.
...Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time ; but Goldsmith's plain narrative wiH 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... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 564 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... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1837 - 604 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... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 606 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... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 604 str.
...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...Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Floras or Eutropius; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 600 str.
...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...Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Floras or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 550 str.
...Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time; but Goldsmith's plum narrative will please again and ngain. Y$ C{ : ;.c {_ Xl Ȁ ʓU| 5ݡ XNٟ gd Vn... /ڄ z hr2T Fc d%$ Y ^ !o tʩ vW ;Jm[RTU ަ = ц O n passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out." Goldsmith's abridgment is better than... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 str.
...Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. osals of marriage to Miss Wilmot, my son George's...mistress, this a good deal damped the heartiness of hi ar.d wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.1' Goldsmith's... | |
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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.... 
