| 1856 - 374 σελίδες
...Reiteration, — Buckingham. MDXXXVIL When a man writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly : the greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading,...man will turn over half a library to make one book. — Johnson. MDXXXVIIL Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flattery. If you flatter all... | |
| 1859 - 650 σελίδες
...to Boswell is decisive. ' When a man,' he said, 1 writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly. The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading...man will turn over half a library to make one book.' If, however, he did not complete his compositions before he put them upon paper, he was gathering fresh... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 584 σελίδες
...to Boswell is decisive. ' When a man,' he said, ' writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly. The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading...man will turn over half a library to make one book.' If, however, he did not complete his compositions before he put them upon paper, he was gathering fresh... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 σελίδες
...to Boswell is decisive. ' When a man,' he said, ' writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly. The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading...man will turn over half a library to make one book.' If, however, he did not complete his compositions before he put them upon paper, he was gathering fresh... | |
| 1859 - 578 σελίδες
...to Boswell is decisive. ' When a man,' he said, ' writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly. The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading...man will turn over half a library to make one book.' If, however, he did not complete his compositions before he put them upon paper, he was gathering fresh... | |
| Jacob Lowres - 1862 - 192 σελίδες
...book. — Johnson. Analysis. 1. When a man writes from his own mind 2. Ue writes very rapidly : 3. The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write; 4. A man will turn over half a library to make one book. Adv. sentence to 2nd clause : time. Prin.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1867 - 158 σελίδες
...probability which we discover. Providence gives the power, of which reason teaches the use. AUTHORSHIP. The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading,...man will turn over half a library to make one book. SPEAKING IN PUBLIC. We must not estimate a man's powers by his being able or not able to deliver his... | |
| John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 σελίδες
...go to the devil where he is known. Ibid. An. 1773. Was ever poet so trusted before ! Ibid. An. 1774. A man will turn over half a library to make one book. Ibid. An. 1775. Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Ibid. An. 1775. The potentiality of growing... | |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1871 - 368 σελίδες
...accumulated three folio volumes of notes. "The greater part of an author's time," said Dr. Johnson, " is spent in reading in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book." Unhappily, with these riches comes the chance of being crushed by them, of which the agreeable Roman... | |
| James Boswell - 1873 - 620 σελίδες
...Carte's History t ' JOHNSON : 'Yes, sir, when a man writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly.1 The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading,...office. JOHNSON : ' Hale, sir, attended to other things besides law : he left a great estate.' BosWKLL : ' That was because what he got accumulated without... | |
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