 | James Boswell - 1889 - 494 σελίδες
...for composition, and how a man can write at one time, and not at another. " Nay," said Dr. Johnson, " a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it." * I here began to indulge old Scottish sentiments, and to express a warm regret, that, by our union... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 296 σελίδες
...Rambler. He is also wrong in asserting that Friday was one of the days on which the paper was published. man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it.' " l He left himself no time for correction. "Almost all his Ramblers " were written (he said) just... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 σελίδες
...respectable householders. 318 Douglus Jerrold : Specimens of .ferrold's Wit. The Perils of Authorship. A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly toit. 319 Johnson : Boswell's Life of Johnson. V. 40. (George Birkbeck Hill, Editor, 1887.) An author... | |
 | Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1878 - 1892 - 232 σελίδες
...The Secretary asks for ' the titles of any books or pamphlets written, and a description of them.' ' A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it,' says Johnson, — but to publish . . . that is altogether another thing. Here I have ' a trunkfull... | |
 | JAMES BOSWELL - 1892
...Wives, two allowed to the Landgrave of Hesse, 182. Worthington, Dr., a Welsh clergyman, 386. Writing, a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it, 25. Wynne, Mrs. Glvnn, sings Welsh songs to Johnson, 392. Sir Thomas, Lord Newborough, 3S9 n. Yesterday.... | |
 | Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1878 - 1892 - 232 σελίδες
...The Secretary asks for ' the titles of any books or pamphlets written, and a description of them.' ' A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it,' says Johnson, — but to publish . . . that is altogether another thing. Here I have ' a trunkfull... | |
 | 1893 - 168 σελίδες
...search of true literary genius must pass quickly on to other writings. Dr. Jonson very truly remarks, " A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it." Hence, in seeking the literary ability of any set of writers the quality only, and not the quantity,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 σελίδες
...strong confirmation of the truth of a remark of his, which I have had occasion to quote elsewhere, \ entleman proposed after you, was rejected. I thank...but wish he were not so fine. I will take care of lo, by Miss Mulso, now Mrs Chapone; No. 30, by Mrs Catherine Talbot; No. 97, by Mr Samuel Richardson,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 556 σελίδες
...composition ; and how a man can write at one time, and not at another. — " Nay (said Dr. Johnson) a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it" I here began to indulge old Scottish sentiments, and to express a warm regret, that, by our Union with... | |
 | Huber Gray Buehler - 1900 - 308 σελίδες
...would watch a mouse. 2. What is read twice is commonly better remembered than what is transcribed. A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. 4. A falcon, towering in her pride of place. Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. 5. When that... | |
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Somebody talked of happy moments for composition, and how a man can write at one time and not at another. "Nay," said Dr Johnson, "a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. 
