 | John Franklin Genung, Charles Lane Hanson - 1915 - 424 pages
...by the premises on the following page, and show in each case whether you have proved too much : 1. A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. I am a man, therefore . . . 2. All rivers run downhill. Although this river seems to flow uphill .... | |
 | James Boswell - 1916 - 370 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...constitutional indolence, his depression of spirits, and his labor in carrying on his Dictionary, he answered the stated calls of the press twice a week from the... | |
 | Hans Meier - 1916 - 124 pages
...und Reynolds stimmte ihm bei.93) Während aber Johnson einerseits noch so bestimmt behauptet, daß a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it,94) schreibt er dqch95) im Jahre 1781 mit Bedauern: I thought myself above assistance or obstruction... | |
 | Modern Language Association of America - 1917 - 890 pages
...remembers that Milton's " vein never happily flowed but from the Autumnal Equinox to the Vernal," and that " a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it." 6 Similarly, the positive dicta in Rasselas on the choice of life are mildly reflected in Reynolds's... | |
 | Alfred Edward Newton - 1918 - 584 pages
...has written — of all novelists my favorite. Trollope proved the correctness of Johnson's remark, "A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly at it." This we know Trollope did, we have his word for it. His personality was too sane, too matter... | |
 | Frank Crane - 1920 - 326 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 - 1923 - 372 pages
...March, 1752, on which day it closed. This is a strong confirmation of the truth of a remark of his, that "a man may write at any time, if he will set...from the stores of his mind during all that time. The Rambler has increased in fame as in age. Soon after its first folio edition was concluded, it was... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1180 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...constitutional indolence, his depression of spirits, and his labor in carrying on his Dictionary, be answered the stated calls of the press twice a week from the... | |
 | Wilfred Whitten - 1924 - 186 pages
...rule to splurge in the night hours, and in the morning to purge. On the other hand, Johnson maintained that a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. Words, however, are things ; and the man who accords To his language the license to outrage his soul,... | |
 | 1925 - 770 pages
...which computation Johnson's essays would be but farthing pieces) we can put the great man's own dictum: 'A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.' Thirdly, it is a popular fallacy — and branded as such by Lamb himself — that enough is as good... | |
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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. 
