 | Washington Irving - 1903 - 330 páginas
...second time ; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Eobertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils, ' Bead I over your compositions, and, whenever you meet with passage which you think is particularly... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 páginas
...strike out three. Nicolas Boileau (1636-1711) French poet, critic Read your own compositions, and when you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer Art should simplify . . . finding what... | |
 | Robie Macauley, George Lanning - 1990 - 296 páginas
...to Oxford undergraduates since the eighteenth century: "Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out." Pronouncements like these could be multiplied, but they would do little more than amplify three common... | |
 | Linda D. Swink - 1997 - 264 páginas
...written before their manuscripts leave their desk for the mailbox. Poet and essayist Samuel Johnson said, "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet...which you think is particularly fine, strike it out." It's difficult to chop away at those wonderfully elegant phrases and words you labored over for days,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 páginas
...Filmgoer's Companion (1984). Note attached to rejected script. Read your own compositions, and when you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. SAMUEL JOHNSON, (1709-1784) British author, lexicographer. Quoted in James Boswell, Life of Dr. lohnson,... | |
 | Gordon Martel - 1999 - 304 páginas
...he never, when fashioning his epigrams, recall the advice that Johnson ascribes to a college tutor: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet...which you think is particularly fine, strike it out"? Of course, we would have been lexicographically the poorer had he done so. All the same, the best-advised... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 páginas
...Badly', in The Bookmark 21:46 [quoting a college tutor] Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. Samuel Johnson, 1773, in lames Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) 21:47 Alas! sir, what can... | |
 | David Petersen - 2001 - 230 páginas
...by how much he can afford to leave out." And long before either of those two, Sam Johnson noted that "An old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils:...which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.") Rather than feeling driven to write, I came to writing through editing, and got into editing by accident.... | |
 | Dean King - 2001 - 436 páginas
...editor might have been tempted to invoke the advice of Samuel Johnson's college tutor: "Where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out." Instead, he tactfully suggested that perhaps the scene was structurally out of place. O'Brian shrugged... | |
 | Gerry McGovern, Rob Norton, Catherine O'Dowd - 2002 - 266 páginas
...similar rule is embodied in William Faulkner's phrase "kill your darlings." Or as Samuel Johnson put it: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet...with a passage which you think is particularly fine, stnke it out." This sounds like suicidal advice but it makes a lot of sense. Often we fall in love... | |
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... be buried under his own ornaments. Goldsmith tells you shortly all you want to know ; Robertson detains you a great deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time ; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again.... 
