 | Religion - 1847 - 782 pages
...writing. It cost him severe self-denial and effort to put pen to paper. Dr. Johnson used to say, a man can write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it. All that a mind like Johnson's or Foster's needed was the first dogged effort, and then the intellectual... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1847 - 792 pages
...writing. It cost him severe self-denial and effort to put pen to paper. Dr. Johnson used to say, a man can write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it. All that a mind like Johnson's or Foster's needed was the first dogged effort, and then the intellectual... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 1798 pages
...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." * I here began to indulge old Scottish sentiments, and to express a warm regret, that, by time before... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 pages
...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." Johnson told us, almost all his Ramblers were written just as they were wanted for the press ; that... | |
 | Theology - 1852 - 710 pages
...writing. It cost him severe self-denial and effort to put pen to paper. Dr Johnson used to say, a man can write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it. All that a mind like Johnson's or Foster's needed was the first dogged effort, and then the intellectual... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - Temperance - 1853 - 406 pages
...writing. It cost him severe self-denial and effort to put pen to paper. Dr. Johnson used to say, a man can write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it. All that a mind like Johnson's or Foster's needed was the first dogged effort, and then the intellectual... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - Biography - 1854 - 732 pages
...almost mechanical. Such attainments can only be reached by the most determined disciple of perseverance. "A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it;" was Johnson's own saying, but he could not have verified it, unless his mind, by assiduous application,... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1860 - 960 pages
...for composition, and how a man can write at one time, and not at another. " Nay," said Dr. Johnson, " oposal, but have met with impediments, which, I hope, are now at an 4 I here began to indulge old Scottish sentiments, and to express a warm regret, that, by time before... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1867 - 158 pages
...be sure ; but how much more would a young man improve were he to study during those years. WRITING. A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. ARGUMENT. Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1868 - 828 pages
...to find it done at all. Boswell's Life of Johnson. An. 1763. A very unclubable man. ibid. An. 1764. A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. Ibid- An. 1773. Let him go ahead to a distant country ; let him go to some place where he is not known.... | |
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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. 
