Goldsmith's Animated Nature: A Study of GoldsmithYale University Press, 1924 - 159 pages |
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Page 11 - The Natural History is about half finished, and I will shortly finish the rest. God knows I am tired of this kind of finishing, which is but bungling work ; and that not so much my fault as the fault of my scurvy circumstances.
Page 132 - Chamier believed then that I had written the line, as much as if he had seen me write it. Goldsmith, however, was a man, who, whatever he wrote, did it better than any other man could do. He deserved a place in Westminster- Abbey ; and every year he lived, would have deserved it better.
Page 134 - New Experiments Physico-mechanical, touching the spring of the air, and its effects ; (made for the most part in a new pneumatical engine) written .... by the honourable Robert Boyle, Esq* experiment xxxvi.
Page 45 - A COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, consisting of Authentic Writers in our own tongue, which have not before been collected in English, or have only been abridged in other Collections, and...
Page 11 - Goldsmith's abridgement 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 of saying everything he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian Tale.
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