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" I have not read Hume; but, doubtless, Goldsmith's History is better than the verbiage of Robertson, or the foppery of Dalrymple." BOSWELL. " Will you not admit the superiority of Robertson, in whose History we find such penetration — such painting?... "
Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr ... - Page 216
by Samuel Johnson - 1807
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Cyclopædia of Literary and Scientific Anecdote: Illustrations of the ...

William Keddie - 1854 - 400 pages
...superiority of Robertson, in whose history we find such penetration — such painting ?" Johnson : " Sir, you must consider how that penetration and that...imagination. He who describes what he never saw, draws from foncy. Robertson paints minds, as Sir Joshua paints faces in a history piece ; he imagines an heroic...
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A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature

Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 614 pages
...penetration, such paiuting ?" Johnson. — " Sir, you must consider how that penetration and that paiuting are employed. It is not history, it is imagination....who describes what he never saw draws from fancy. Robert son paints minds as Sir Joshua paints laces in a history piece ; he imagines an heroic countenance....
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The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 2

John Forster - 1854 - 572 pages
...superiority of Robertson, in whose History ' we find such penetration, such painting ? " JoHKSoN : " Sir, you must consider ' how that penetration and that painting are employed. It is not history, it ia ' imagination. He who describes what he never saw, draws from fancy. Robertson ' paints minds as...
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David Hume. Rapin de Thoyras. Catherine Macaulay. James Ralph. James ...

Eugene Lawrence - 1855 - 410 pages
...the superiority of Robertson, in whose history we find such penetration, such painting?" Johnson. — "Sir, you must consider how that penetration and that...Robertson paints minds as Sir Joshua paints faces in a history piece ; he imagines an heroic countenance. You must look upon Robertson's work as a romance,...
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Pleasures, objects, and advantages, of literature

Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1855 - 240 pages
...papers replace witnesses. Johnson indicated one of the immediate inconveniences of this change : — " He who describes what he never saw, draws from Fancy....minds, as Sir Joshua paints faces in a history-piece." History may be considered in three lights— a pleasurable, an educational, and a moral: (1) as it...
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Pleasures of Literature

Robert Aris Willmott - 1860 - 250 pages
...State-papers replace witnesses. Johnson indicated one of the inconveniences of this change : — " He who describes what he never saw, draws from Fancy....minds, as Sir Joshua paints faces in a history-piece." History may be considered in three lights — a pleasurable, an educational, and a moral : (1) as it...
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The Works of Washington Irving ...

Washington Irving - 1861 - 416 pages
...superiority of Kobertson, in whose history we find such penetration, such painting ?" Johnson. — " Sir, you must consider how that penetration and that...who describes what he never saw, draws from fancy. Kobertson paints minds as Sir Joshua paints faces, in a historypiece ; he imagines an heroic countenance....
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Oliver Goldsmith, His Friends and Critics: A Lecture

James Whiteside - 1862 - 100 pages
...superiority of Robertson, in whose history we find such penetration — such painting? Johnson. — Sir, you must consider how that penetration and that...countenance. You must look upon Robertson's work as a romance, and try it by that standard : history it is not. Besides, sir, it is the great excellence...
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Essays and Lectures: Historical and Literary

James Whiteside - 1868 - 498 pages
...superiority of Robertson, in whose history we find such penetration — such painting ? Johnson. — Sir, you must consider how that penetration and that...countenance. You must look upon Robertson's work as a romance, and try it by that standard : history it is not. Besides, sir, it is the great excellence...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pages
...superiority of Robertson, in whose history we find such penetration — such painting ? ' JOHNSON : ' Sir, you must consider how that penetration and that...imagination. He who describes what he never saw, draws from faney. Robertson paints minds as Sir Joshua paints faces in a history piece : he imagines an heroic...
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