 | Arthur Lytton Sells - 1924 - 254 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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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Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and... 
