 | William Hazlitt - 1901 - 320 pages
...get beyond a few meagre sentences. Necessity soon made him prove the truth of the Johnsonian dictum that a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. Latterly he could say that writing cost him nothing, and that he had merely to "unfold the book and... | |
 | Cuyler Reynolds - 1902 - 504 pages
...Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. BACON, Essay I. Of Studies. A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. BOSWELL, Life of Johnson. Ignorance makes a fastidious critic ; knowing little, little is liked. AI.LSTON.... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 pages
...but we turn her out of a garden. nnd. Mnch may be made of a Scotchman if he be canght young. ibid. A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. Vol. ir. Chap. ii. 1773. 1 Every investigation which is guided by principles of nature fixes its ultimate... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 136 pages
...quoted by Boswell. 17 31-32. Boswell considers it a strong confirmation of the truth of Johnson's remark that " a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it," that " notwithstanding his constitutional indolence, his depression of spirits, and his labour in carrying... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 136 pages
...quoted by Boswell. 17 31-32. Boswell considers it a strong confirmation of the truth of Johnson's remark that " a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it," that " notwithstanding his constitutional indolence, his depression of spirits, and his labour in carrying... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1904 - 136 pages
...quoted by Boswell. 17 31-32. Boswell considers it a strong confirmation of the truth of Johnson's remark that " a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it," that " notwithstanding his constitutional indolence, his depression of spirits, and his labour in carrying... | |
 | Arthur Carey, Frederic Allen Whiting, Huger Elliott, Carl Purington Rollins - 1903 - 388 pages
...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. "I 'M older 'n you, an' I 've seen things an' men, An' my experience, — tell ye wut... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 626 pages
...strong confirmation of the truth of a a-mark of his, which I have had occasion to quote else\vhere,§ that " a man may write at any time, if he will set...the stated calls of the press twice a week from the * I have heard Dr. Warton mention that he was at Mr. Robert Dodsley's with the late Mr. Moore, and... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 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... | |
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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. 
