 | Peter France - 1992 - 268 pages
...speaking his own sentiments' (Life, p. 353).2 The real man of letters can perform on any subject, and 'a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it' (Life, p. 144). The consciousness of universal literary ability went with an eye for fame and the ways... | |
 | Peter Martin - 1995 - 364 pages
...uncomfortable allusion to Johnson's remark that no moments of composition were 'happier' than others and that 'a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.'25 'I beg of you to comfort me', Boswell appeals, 'instead of scolding me.' 'I have always found... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you. 5079 Boswell - Life s led. directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one 5080 Boswell - Life If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon... | |
 | Joan Aiken - 1998 - 112 pages
...situations, and the actions and behaviour of people in those situations, then you are a story-teller. A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. Samuel Johnson, Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides Assembling your Material; Getting Started... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 pages
...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.' James Boswell, 1785, 'Monday 16th August', in The journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 21:18 1 could see... | |
 | Myron Weiner, Michael S. Teitelbaum - 2001 - 164 pages
...Johnson's quip about the effects of anticipating one's own hanging. Johnson also wrote, I reminded myself, that a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. Myron Weiner died at his home in Vermont on June 3,1999. INTRODUCTION 1 opulation—its growth or decline,... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 772 pages
...undertakes to teach.' SAMUEL JOHNSON, Preface to Richard Rolt, Dictionary of Trade and Commerce (1756) 'A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.' SAMUEL JOHNSON inJames Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) INTRODUCTION [T]he historiography... | |
 | David Womersley - 2002 - 472 pages
...'strong confirmation of the truth of a remark of his, which I have had occasion to quote elsewhere, that a "man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.i"66 This is at variance with Gibbon's judgement, that the literary imagination works betrer when... | |
 | Drayton Bird - 2002 - 324 pages
...America; the moral being, if you see a good idea that might work for you, steal it. The Right Approach 'A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.' Dr Johnson In his best book, My Early Life, Winston Churchill told how he coped with the Latin paper... | |
 | Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, Nancy Amendt-Lyon - 2003 - 340 pages
...write even on the subway has a notable provenance. In Boswell's famous Life of Samuel Johnson, we have: "A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it" (entry March 1750). Now, memory tells me that Johnson further said that the sentiment was from Christopher... | |
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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. 
