 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 стор.
...and without idiomatic vigour or variety. Yet it was of him that Johnson quoted the tutor's advice. ' ed, ye easy fair ! Of vengeance due to broken vows. Ye perjured His pompous manner at times becomes ridiculous, as when he apologises for the introduction of Rizzio,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 стор.
...an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils : " Read over your compositions, and where ever *q 3D; K15 QA S& M g { , t e '@: Z :J a~~ W L Z Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 602 стор.
...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 Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say,... | |
 | Frank Frankfort Moore - 1910 - 534 стор.
...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 ! ' Goldsmith's Abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius, and I will venture to... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 стор.
...what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils: 'Read over your compositions, and whenever it is of a still more extensive and permanent nature; that constant —JOHNSON, SAMUEL, 1773, Life by Boswell, ed. Hill, vol. n, p. 272. A disciple of the old school of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1912 - 106 стор.
...narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor at 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,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 стор.
...strike out three. Nicolas Boileau (1636-1711) French poet, critic Read your own compositions, and when you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer Art should simplify . . . finding what... | |
 | Robie Macauley, George Lanning - 1990 - 296 стор.
...to Oxford undergraduates since the eighteenth century: "Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out." Pronouncements like these could be multiplied, but they would do little more than amplify three common... | |
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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... 
