 | Arthur Carey, Frederic Allen Whiting, Huger Elliott, Carl Purington Rollins - 1903
...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 - 1172 페이지
...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 - 724 페이지
...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 - 724 페이지
...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... | |
 | Erle Elsworth Clippinger - 1912 - 371 페이지
...might conjure an awe-inspiring composition from the shadowy realms of thought. Boswell has said, " A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly at it." The method of producing compositions which was prescribed by poor, patient, dogged Boswell... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1913
...each coach (at Garrick's funeral) ? " " Madam, there were no more six horses than six Phoenixes." " A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it," said Johnson. Of Beauclerk, " No man was ever so free, when he was going to say a good thing, from... | |
 | James Boswell - 1916 - 344 페이지
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1917 - 574 페이지
...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... | |
 | Alfred Edward Newton - 1918 - 373 페이지
...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 - 317 페이지
...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... | |
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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. 
