 | Thomas Cooper - 1854 - 732 pages
...almost mechanical. Such attainments can only be reached by the most determined disciple of perseverance. "A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it;" was Johnson's own saying, but he could not have verified it, unless his mind, by assiduous application,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pages
...for composition, and how a man can write at one time, and not at another. " Nay," said Dr. Johnson, " oposal, but have met with impediments, which, I hope, are now at an 4 I here began to indulge old Scottish sentiments, and to express a warm regret, that, by time before... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1867 - 158 pages
...be sure ; but how much more would a young man improve were he to study during those years. WRITING. A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. ARGUMENT. Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 pages
...to find it done at all. Boswell's Life of Johnson. An. 1763. A very unclubable man. ibid. An. 1764. A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. Ibid- An. 1773. Let him go ahead to a distant country ; let him go to some place where he is not known.... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pages
...strong confirmation of the truth of a remark of his, which I have had occasion to quote elsewhere,3 'H* hie labour in carrying on his Dictionary, he answered the stated calls of the press twice a week from... | |
 | 1873 - 758 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.' " Yours, WRW I agree in the main with my illustrious contributor; but much depends upon the nature... | |
 | 1873 - 750 pages
...composition, and how a man can write at one time and not at another. 'Nay,' said Dr. Johnson, <a innn may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.' " Yours, \VRW I agree in the main with my illustrious contributor; but much depends upon the nature... | |
 | 1874 - 674 pages
...scratch your head and bite your nails." ELL— XT. " He wears the rose Of youth upon him." ST-RN. • " A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it." 2n TERM SENIOR YEAR. " He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument."... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...wrong one.1 Ibid. An. 1770. Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young. ibid. An. 1772. A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. Ibid. An. 1773. 1 Mr. Kremlin was distinguished for ignorance ; for he had only one idea, and that... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 346 pages
...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." — Boswell. Mr. Strahan, the printer, told me that Johnson wrote "Rasselas," that with the profits... | |
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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. 
