 | Early English newspapers - 1873 - 758 pages
...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.' " Yours, WRW I agree in the main with my illustrious contributor; but much depends upon the nature... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1873 - 750 pages
...composition, and how a man can write at one time and not at another. 'Nay,' said Dr. Johnson, <a innn may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.' " Yours, \VRW I agree in the main with my illustrious contributor; but much depends upon the nature... | |
 | 1874 - 674 pages
...scratch your head and bite your nails." ELL— XT. " He wears the rose Of youth upon him." ST-RN. • " A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it." 2n TERM SENIOR YEAR. " He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument."... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...wrong one.1 Ibid. An. 1770. Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young. ibid. An. 1772. A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. Ibid. An. 1773. 1 Mr. Kremlin was distinguished for ignorance ; for he had only one idea, and that... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 346 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." — Boswell. Mr. Strahan, the printer, told me that Johnson wrote "Rasselas," that with the profits... | |
 | 1879 - 348 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."—Boswell. Mr. Strahan, the printer, told me that Johnson wrote "Rasselas," that with the profits... | |
 | New-Hampshire Medical Society - 1883 - 414 pages
...an unfounded supposition in many instances, for the effort has never been made. . It has been said that a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. We all have opinions, somewhat notorious for their diversity, based upon study and experience, and... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...Cli. 5. Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young. Boswell's Lift ofJohnton. An. 1772. A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. • An. 1773. Let him go abroad to a distant country ; let him go to some place where he is not known.... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 742 pages
...strong confirmation of the truth of a remark of his, which I have had occasion to quote elsewhere,3 that " a man may write at any time, if he will set...the stated calls of the press twice a week from the 1 I have heard Dr. Warton mention that he was at Mr. Robert Dodsle/s with the late Mr. Moore, and several... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 544 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." 3 I here began to indulge old Scottish sentiments, and to express a warm regret, that, by our union... | |
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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. 
