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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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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Life

James Boswell - 1887 - 512 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's work as romance, and try it by that standard 2. History it is not. Besides, Sir, it is the great excellence of a writer to put into his book as...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1888 - 608 pages
...superiority of Robertson, in whose History we find such penetration, — such painting? " JOHNSON. " Sir, you must consider how that penetration and that...Joshua paints faces in a history-piece : he imagines an heroick countenance. You must look upon Robertson's work as romance, and try it by that standard. History...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

James Boswell - 1889 - 494 pages
...penetration, such painting ?" JOHNSON. " Sir, you must consider how that penetration and that paint iug are employed. It is not history, it is imagination....describes what he never saw, draws from fancy. Robertson pawits minds as Sir Joshua paints faces in a history-piece : he imagines an heroic countenance. You...
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The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 2

John Forster - 1871 - 544 pages
...the superiority of Kobertson, in whose History "we find such penetration, such painting?" JCIIKSOIT: "Sir, you must consider "how that penetration and...who describes what he never saw, draws from fancy. Kobertson " paints minds аз Sir Joshua paints faces in a history-piece : he imagines an heroic "countenance....
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The Life of Samuel Johnson ... Comprising a Series of His Epistolary ...

James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pages
...the superiority of Robertson, in whose history we find such penetration — such painting'?" JOHNSON: i A tele . ne muigiuca an jieruu; t-uuiiienance. ion .,iust look upon Robertson's work as romance, and...
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Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography, Volume 1

Washington Irving - 1897 - 380 pages
...the superiority of Robertson, in whose history we find such penetration, such painting?" Johnson. — "Sir, you must consider how that penetration and that...history-piece ; he imagines an heroic countenance. You must ©pinions on tbe •Roman f>istorg 299 look upon Robertson's work as romance, and try it by that standard....
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The Life of Samuel Johnson ...: To which is Added The Journal of a ..., Volume 2

James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pages
...the superiority of Robertson, in whose history wefind such penetration — such painting?" JOHNSON: " inahistory piece ; he imagines an heroic countenance. You must look upon Robertson's work as romance,...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L. D.: Together with a Journal of a ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1900 - 638 pages
...superiority of Robertson, in whose History we find such penetration, — such painting ? " JOHNSON. " Sir, you must consider how that penetration and that...employed. It is not history, it is imagination. He 1 Not in the " Tale of a Tub," but in the " History of John Bull." who describes what he never saw,...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - 1901 - 502 pages
...the superiority of Robertson, in whose History1 we find such penetration, such painting ?" JOHNBON. " Sir, you must consider how that penetration and that...describes what he never saw, draws from fancy. Robertson painta minds as Sir Joshua paints faces in a history-piece : he imagines an heroic countenance. You...
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Oliver Goldsmith, a Biography

Washington Irving - 1903 - 336 pages
...the superiority of Robertson, in whose history we find such penetration, such painting?" Johnson. — "Sir, you must consider how that penetration and that...romance, and try it by that standard. History it is 5 not. Besides, sir, it is the great excellence of a writer to put into his. book as much as his book...
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