...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...

...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...from the stores of his mind, during all that time. Posterity will be astonished when they are told, upon the authority of Johnson himself, that many of...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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 doggedly1 to it.' I here began to indulge old Scottish sentiments, and to express a warm regret, that,...

...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...

...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,...

...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...