 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 400 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 said to one of his pupils, ' Read over youi' compositions, and, whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 674 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 - 1854 - 614 str.
...Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time ; hut Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college...his pupils — ' Read over your compositions, and, whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out!' Goldsmith's... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 578 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...his pupils : ' Read over " ' your compositions, and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is " ' particularly fine, strike it out.' " Harwell,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1854 - 396 str.
...Robertson's cum brous 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 said to one of his pupils, ' Read over you.* compositions, and, whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 572 str.
...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.'" Boneell, iii. 280-1. VOL. H. !5 1769. for this consideration the author is to make overall his right... | |
 | Eugene Lawrence - 1855 - 390 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 said to one of his pupils, ' Read over your composition, and when you meet with a passage which you think particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1858 - 336 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 str.
...In allusion to Dr. Johnson's supposed political principles, narrative will please again and again. 1 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 - 1860 - 950 str.
...•Uissi'Ml to Dr. Johnson's supposed political principles, narrative will please again and again. I would 1 say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said...compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which yon think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement ibetter than that of Lucius... | |
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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.... 
