| Arthur Lytton Sells - 1924 - 254 Seiten
...recevoir cent guinées par volume. (4) « Sir, he has thé art of compiling, and of saying everything he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will moke il as entertaining as a Peitsian taie » (Boswell, Li[eo[ Johnson, éd. 1816, t. IH p. 243). LES... | |
| G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 Seiten
...this work that Johnson threw out the remark which he afterwards interwove in his friend's epitaph, — 'He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as agreeable as a Persian Tale.' . . Excepting some short Tales, Goldsmith gave to the department of the... | |
| Will Cuppy - 2005 - 170 Seiten
...with this little piece of his mind: "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." In the long run what did it matter whether Goldsmith knew the Yak? He knew Dr. Johnson! The reviews... | |
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