 An historian ! My dear Sir, you surely will not rank his compilation of the Roman History with the works of other historians of this age ?  Johnsoniana.. - Seite 34von James Boswell - 1820 - 178 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 952 Seiten
...conversation with Boswell, to the great astonishment of the latter. " Whether we take Goldsmith," said he, " as a poet, as a comic writer, or as an historian,...class." Boswell. — " An historian ! My dear sir, yot surely will not rank his compilation of the Roman History with the works of other historians of... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 966 Seiten
...with Boswell, to the great astonishment of the latter. " Whether we take Goldsmith," said he, •• as a poet, as a comic writer, or as an historian,...class." Boswell. — " An historian ! My dear sir, you surely will not rank his compilation of the Roman History with the works of other historians of this... | |
 | 1883 - 492 Seiten
...(See " Brief Narrative of Facts," 1875, by George Miiller). ART. Ill—OLIVER GOLDSMITH.' " YITHETHER, indeed, we take him as a poet, as a comic \ } writer,...or as an historian, he stands in the first class." Such was Johnson's verdict on the power and versatility of Oliver Goldsmith, whose genius he had been... | |
 | William Meynell Whittemore - 1883 - 866 Seiten
...abilities. Whatever he composed, he did it better that any other man could ; and whether we consider him as a poet, as a comic writer, or as an historian, he was one of the first writers of his time, and will ever stand in the foremost clase." These great spirits... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 Seiten
...subject in his study, and can write well upon it; but when he comes into company, grows confused, and unable to talk. Take him as a poet, his ' Traveller'...his ' Traveller.' Whether, indeed, we take him as a poet,—as a comic writer,—or as an historian, he stands in the first class." BOSWELL. " An historian... | |
 | F L. Clarke - 1884 - 278 Seiten
...place in Westminster Abbey ; and every year he lived he would have deserved it better." Or again, " Take him as a poet, his ' Traveller ' is a very fine...Deserted Village,' were it not sometimes too much an echo of his 'Traveller.' Whether, indeed, we take him as poet, as a comic writer, or as an historian,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1884 - 528 Seiten
...the republic of letters, we shall close our memoir : Of Goldsmith Dr. Johnson says : — " Whether we take him as a poet, as a comic writer, or as an historian, he stands in the first class." 1 And, in another place, Boswell records that Johnson said : — " Whatever he (Goldsmith) wrote, he... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 506 Seiten
...the republic of letters, we shall close our memoir : Of Goldsmith Dr. Johnson says : — " Whether we take him as a poet, as a comic writer, or as an historian, he stands in the first class." l And, in another place, Boswell records that Johnson said : — " Whatever he (Goldsmith) wrote, he... | |
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 492 Seiten
...subject in his study, and can write well upon it ; but when he comes into company, grows confused, and unable to talk. Take him as a poet, his ' Traveller...Traveller.' Whether, indeed, we take him as a poet — as a comick writer—- or as an historian, he stands in the first class." BOSWELL. "An historian ! My dear... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 648 Seiten
...Dr. Johnson, the supreme judge of literary appeal, announced to a brilliant company of literati, " Whether, indeed, we take him as a poet, as a comic...or as an historian, he stands in the first class." But not even now was he freed from financial troubles, nor was he ever; he wasted his income by injudicious... | |
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