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Opere di William Robertson

The history of America (1787) 45 copie
The History of Scotland (2009) 6 copie
Œuvres 1 copia
Just Living (2005) 1 copia

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Informazioni generali

Data di nascita
1721-09-19
Data di morte
1793-06-11
Luogo di sepoltura
Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh, Scotland
Sesso
male
Attività lavorative
historian
Organizzazioni
Church of Scotland
University of Edinburgh
Premi e riconoscimenti
FRSE
FSAScot

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JOHNSON. "Why, who are before him [Goldsmith]?" BOSWELL. "Hume,—Robertson, or the foppery of Dalrymple." BOSWELL. "Will you not admit the superiority of Robertson, in whose History we find such penetration—such painting?" JOHNSON. "Sir, you must consider how that penetration and that painting are employed. It is not history, it is imagination. He who describes what he never saw, draws from fancy. Robertson paints minds as Sir 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 it is not. --Life of Johnson

And elsewhere: "I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils: 'Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.'"
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SamuelJohnsonLibrary | 1 altra recensione | May 12, 2008 |
... as to Robertson, he never was in America, he relates nothing on his own knolege, he is a compiler only of the relations of others, and a mere translator of the opinions of Mons. de Buffon... (TJ to Chastellux, 7 June 1785)

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Voto
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Recensioni
2
ISBN
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Lingue
4

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