 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 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 - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 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 - English prose literature - 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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 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... | |
 | Erle Elsworth Clippinger - English language - 1912 - 408 pages
...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... | |
 | Alfred H. Hyatt - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1913 - 492 pages
...moments for composition ; and how a man can write at one tune, and not another. ' Nay (said Dr. Johnson), a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.' I there began to indulge old Scottish sentiments, and to express a warm regret, that, by our Union... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1913 - 622 pages
...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... | |
 | John Franklin Genung, Charles Lane Hanson - English language - 1915 - 424 pages
...by the premises on the following page, and show in each case whether you have proved too much : 1. A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. I am a man, therefore . . . 2. All rivers run downhill. Although this river seems to flow uphill .... | |
 | James Boswell - Readers - 1916 - 370 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... | |
| |
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. 
