| James Boswell - 1860 - 960 Seiten
...you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he mes Boswell topic without observing, that it is probable that Dr. Johnson, who owned that he often " talked for... | |
| James Boswell - 1860 - 950 Seiten
...art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to MJ in a pleasing manner. He is now writing s Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale." I cannot dismiss the present topic without observing, that it is probable that Dr. Johnson, who owned that he often " talked for... | |
| James Whiteside - 1862 - 100 Seiten
...you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing...and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale." And is not the judgment of the ponderous and learned critic correct? Ill-natured people said when Goldsmith... | |
| Washington Irving - 1864 - 464 Seiten
...you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying everything he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing...and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale." The Natural History to which Johnson alluded was the " History of Animated Nature," which Goldsmith... | |
| James Whiteside - 1868 - 498 Seiten
...you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing...and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale." And is not the judgment of the ponderous and learned critic correct ? Ill-natured people said when... | |
| John Seely Hart - 1872 - 654 Seiten
...work that Johnson threw out the remark which he afterwards interwove in his friend's epit:iph, — He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as agree:tble as a Persian tale." — iSVr Walter ¿Vo/i. accidente that are nojablo for stage effect.... | |
| James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 Seiten
...History, and he will make it as entertaining as a Persian Tale.' I caunot dismiss the present topic without observing that it is probable that Dr. Johnson,...victory,' rather urged plausible objections to Dr. Eobertson's excellent historical works, in the ardour of contest, than expressed his real and decided... | |
| James Boswell - 1873 - 620 Seiten
...History, and he will make it as entertaining as а Гспо.ш Tale.' I cannot dismiss the present topic without observing that it is probable that Dr. Johnson, who owned that he often ' talked fur victory,' rather urged plausible objections to Dr. Robertson's excellent historical works, in the... | |
| James Boswell - 1874 - 602 Seiten
...you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing...victory," rather urged plausible objections to Dr. Robertson'* excellent historical works, in the ardour of contest, than expressed his real and decided... | |
| ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 Seiten
...History, you will find that he excels Vertot Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying everything he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and he will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale." Thus nobly and generously would Johnson administer... | |
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