 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 strani
...Dr. Goldsmith was the authour of " An Enquiry into the present State of polite Learning in Europe," and of " The Citizen of the World," a series of letters supposed to he written from London by a Chinese.* No man had the art of displaying with more advantage as a writer,... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 strani
...great man. ' His mind (says Boswell, probably expressing from recollection the opinion of Johnson) resembled a fertile but thin soil: there was a quick,...not a strong, vegetation of whatever chanced to be sown. No deep root could be struck. The oak of the forest did not grow there,' but the elegant shrubbery... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 strani
...author : and some of his traits of his character will be readily recognized by his surviving friends. " No man had the art of displaying with more advantage, as a writer, whatever literary acquisition he made.— Nihil quod tetigit non ornavit. His mind resembled a fertile, but thin soil.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 strani
...Dr. Goldsmith was the authour of " An Enquiry into the present state of polite Learning in Europe," and of " The Citizen of the World," a series of letters...a writer, whatever literary acquisitions he made. " Niliil quod tetigit non ornavit"* His mind resembled a fertile, but thin soil. There was a quick,... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1807 - 904 strani
...great inequalities, there is pathos, energy, and even sublimity." Character of Goldsmith by Boswell. " No man had the art of displaying with more advantage...whatever literary acquisitions he made. Nihil quod tctigil non ornavit. His mind resembled a fertile, but thin soil. There was a quick, but not a strong... | |
 | John Watkins - 1808 - 768 strani
...characters given of Goldsmith, that by Bos well seems by far the best likeness. " No man," says he, " had the art of displaying with more advantage as a writer, whatever literary acquisitions he had made. Niliil quod tetigit non wnatit.-^ His mind resembled a fertile but thin soil. There was a... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 240 strani
...exact without constraint, and easy without weakness." ME. BOSWELL, who well knew Goldsmith, says, " No man had the art of displaying with more advantage, as a writer, whatever literary acquisition he made. — Ni/iil quod tetigit non ornavit. — His mind resembled a fertile, but thin... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 strani
...Gold* smith possess great merit. No man indeed, as Mr. Boswell remarks, had the art of displaying to more advantage, as a writer, whatever literary acquisitions he made. Nihil, quod tetigit, non orMvit. His mind resembled a fertile, but thin soil. There was a quick, but not a strong, vegetation... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 strani
...Dr. Goldsmith was the author of " An Enquiry into the present State of Polite Learning in Enrope," and of " The Citizen of the World," a series of letters supposed to be written from .London by a Chinese.J No men had the art of displaying with more advantage as a writer, whatever literary acquisitions... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 strani
..." The Citizen of the World," a series of letters supposed to be written from London by a Chinese.J No man had the art of displaying with more advantage...literary acquisitions he made. " Nihil quod tetigit non ornavit."\I His mind resembled a fertile, but thin soil. There was a quick, but not a strong vegetation... | |
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His mind resembled a fertile, but thin soil. There was a quick, but not a strong vegetation of whatever chanced to be thrown upon it. No deep root could be struck. 
