| 1917 - 1686 pages
...one's own work. We can derive some reassurance from the reflection that it was the same oracle who said that a man may write at any time if he will set himself 'doggedly to it. Another dariger confronting the writer who, determined to get away from the beaten track, develops... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 502 pages
...which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements. m Adventurer, No. 138. A MAN may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. Boswell's Life ofJohnson, v. 40. Computation : NEVER think that you have arithmetic enough ; when you... | |
| Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 pages
...respectable householders. 318 Douylas Jerrold : Specimens of Jerrold' s Wit. The Perils of Authorship. A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. 319 Johnson: Bo.iwell's Life, of Johnson. V. 40. (George Kirkbeck Hill, Editor, 1887.) An author and... | |
| James Boswell - 1889 - 480 pages
...Wives, two allowed to the Landgrave of Hesse, 182. Worthington, Dr., a Welsh clergyman, 386. Writing, a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it, 25. Wynne, Mrs. Glynn, sings Welsh songs to Johnson, 392. • Sir Thomas, Lord Newborough, 3S9 n. Yesterday.... | |
| James Boswell - 1889 - 558 pages
...Wives, two allowed to the Landgrave of Hesse, 182. Worthington, Dr., a Welsh clergyman, 386. Writing, a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it, 25. Wynne, Mrs. Glynn, sings Welsh songs to Johnson, 392. Sir Thomas, Lord Newborough, 3S9 n. Yesterday.... | |
| James Boswell - 1889 - 494 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 our union... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 296 pages
...Rambler. He is also wrong in asserting that Friday was one of the days on which the paper was published. man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it.' " l He left himself no time for correction. "Almost all his Ramblers " were written (he said) just... | |
| Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 pages
...respectable householders. 318 Douglus Jerrold : Specimens of .ferrold's Wit. The Perils of Authorship. A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly toit. 319 Johnson : Boswell's Life of Johnson. V. 40. (George Birkbeck Hill, Editor, 1887.) An author... | |
| JAMES BOSWELL - 1892
...Wives, two allowed to the Landgrave of Hesse, 182. Worthington, Dr., a Welsh clergyman, 386. Writing, a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it, 25. Wynne, Mrs. Glvnn, sings Welsh songs to Johnson, 392. Sir Thomas, Lord Newborough, 3S9 n. Yesterday.... | |
| Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1878 - 1892 - 232 pages
...The Secretary asks for ' the titles of any books or pamphlets written, and a description of them.' ' A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it,' says Johnson, — but to publish . . . that is altogether another thing. Here I have ' a trunkfull... | |
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