 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1883 - 586 pagina’s
...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 flne, strike it out!" . . . Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying everything he has to say... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 pagina’s
...will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one oi his pupils : ' Read over your compositions ; and,...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 - 1884 - 634 pagina’s
...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 - 1885 - 492 pagina’s
...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 particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1886 - 608 pagina’s
...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 fine, strike it out I' Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 512 pagina’s
...an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils : " Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage 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 - 1888 - 608 pagina’s
...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." Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Floras or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 504 pagina’s
...and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils : ' Kead over your compositions, and wherever you meet with...which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Floras or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pagina’s
...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 Floras 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... 
