 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 str.
...time; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what'an Floras or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1900 - 304 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.' "—Bosiaell,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 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 wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.'... | |
 | James Boswell - 1901 - 448 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...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1901 - 500 str.
...Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time ; but Gold smith's plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college...compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which yon think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucins... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1864 - 468 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 str.
...and without idiomatic vigour or variety. Vet it »as of him that Johnson quoted the tutor's advice, ' Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet...which you think is particularly fine strike it out.' His pompous manner at timß becomes ridiculous, as when he apologises for the introduction of Rizzio,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 str.
...and without idiomatic vigour or variety. Yet it was of him that Johnson quoted the tutor's advice. ' ed, ye easy fair ! Of vengeance due to broken vows. Ye perjured His pompous manner at times becomes ridiculous, as when he apologises for the introduction of Rizzio,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1903 - 446 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 Florus l or Eutropius ; 2 and I will venture to say, that, if you compare him with Vertot3 in the same places... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1903 - 336 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 20 Florus0 or Eutropius0 ; and I will venture to say, that, if you compare him with Vertot0 in the... | |
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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.... 
