 | James Boswell - 1923 - 343 페이지
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1924 - 511 페이지
...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,... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1144 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, be answered the stated calls of the press twice a week from the... | |
 | Wilfred Whitten - 1924 - 175 페이지
...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
...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... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 357 페이지
...and his type locked up while waiting for the author's corrections. But while Johnson may have bragged that "a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it," accepting writing as labor, rather than the more noble activity Arendt calls "work," he always had... | |
 | Peter France, Emeritus Professor of French Peter France - 1992 - 245 페이지
...speaking his own sentiments' (Life, p. 353).2 The real man of letters can perform on any subject, and 'a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it' (Life, p. 144). The consciousness of universal literary ability went with an eye for fame and the ways... | |
 | Betty Bonham Lies - 1993 - 201 페이지
...Some students will also be eager to share their own revision choices with the class. WRITER'S BLOCK A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it. — Samuel Johnson At some point during the year, you might have students who complain that they can't... | |
 | Peter Martin - 1995 - 298 페이지
...uncomfortable allusion to Johnson's remark that no moments of composition were 'happier' than others and that 'a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.'25 'I beg of you to comfort me', Boswell appeals, 'instead of scolding me.' 'I have always found... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 669 페이지
...best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you. 5079 Boswell - Life s led. directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one 5080 Boswell - Life If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon... | |
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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. 
