 | Samuel Johnson, James Boswell - 1825 - 370 pages
...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 over your compositions, and wherever...which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's Abridgment is better than that of Lucius Floras, or Eutropins; and I will venture to say,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 pages
...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 compositions, and wherever...which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.» Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 430 pages
...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 compositions, and wherever...which you 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,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 622 pages
...will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of here are 'in his works many passages which are of...Prophecy of Famine " is a poem of no ordinary merit. It Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say,... | |
 | George Moir - 1827 - 466 pages
...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 fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Floras, or Eutropius ; and I will venture to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one ol his pupils: "Read over your compositions anil that are still. innre pleasing, the dear ittle fire-side Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Floras 01 Eutropius: and I will venture to say,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 612 pages
...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 compositions, and wherever...which you 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,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...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 compositions, and wherever...which you 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,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 348 pages
...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 compositions, and wherever...which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Floras or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 346 pages
...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 compositions, and wherever...which you 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,... | |
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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 compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike... 
