| 1879 - 348 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... | |
| New-Hampshire Medical Society - 1883 - 414 pages
...an unfounded supposition in many instances, for the effort has never been made. . It has been said that a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. We all have opinions, somewhat notorious for their diversity, based upon study and experience, and... | |
| Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...Cli. 5. Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young. Boswell's Lift ofJohnton. An. 1772. A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. • An. 1773. Let him go abroad to a distant country ; let him go to some place where he is not known.... | |
| James Boswell - 1884 - 722 pages
...strong confirmation of the truth of a remark of his, which I have had occasion to quote elsewhere,3 that " a man may write at any time, if he will set...the stated calls of the press twice a week from the 1 I have heard Dr. Warton mention that he was at Mr. Robert Dodsley"s with the late Mr. Moore, and... | |
| James Boswell - 1884 - 742 pages
...strong confirmation of the truth of a remark of his, which I have had occasion to quote elsewhere,3 that " a man may write at any time, if he will set...the stated calls of the press twice a week from the 1 I have heard Dr. Warton mention that he was at Mr. Robert Dodsle/s with the late Mr. Moore, and several... | |
| Homer - 1884 - 500 pages
...woodcarving or blacksmithing. If anybody ever knew how to write it was Samuel Johnson, and he said, "A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it." There are thousands of young people in this country who want to become authors. It is an ambition laudable... | |
| James Boswell - 1884 - 544 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." 3 I here began to indulge old Scottish sentiments, and to express a warm regret, that, by our union... | |
| James Macaulay - 1884 - 164 pages
...reading and tedious inquiry, and to satisfy themselves and others with illustrious examples, # * * A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to do it. NOT UNDERSTANDING AN ARGUMENT. JOHNSON had been arguing with an opponent who happened to say,... | |
| James Boswell - 1885 - 454 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." 1 This word is commonly used to signify sullenly, gloomily ; and in that sense alone it appears in... | |
| 1917 - 1686 pages
...one's own work. We can derive some reassurance from the reflection that it was the same oracle who said that a man may write at any time if he will set himself 'doggedly to it. Another dariger confronting the writer who, determined to get away from the beaten track, develops... | |
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