 | James Boswell - English literature - 1890 - 568 pages
...Carte's History?" JOHNSON: "Yes, Sir, when a man writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly.* The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading,...trading, and mentioned Hale as an instance of a perfect Ëlge, who devoted himself entirely to his office. ÍNSON: "Hale, Sir, attended to other things ides... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...Medicine for the soul. e. Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes. Diodorus Siculut. 1.49,3. ! 1 /. SAM' L JOHNSON — BoswelFt Life of Johnson. 1775. Books have always a secret influence on the understanding... | |
 | Henry Gyles Turner, Alexander Sutherland - Australian literature - 1898 - 454 pages
...decide it has not time to look at. Bluff old Samuel Johnson said : " The greater part of an author's time is spent in reading in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book." This implies a state of things apparently not compatible with our present environment, and consequently... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1900 - 928 pages
...Carte's History?" JOHNSON : " Yes, Sir, when a man writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly.* 0 besides law : he left a great estate." BOSWELL : "That was because what he got accumulated without... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 pages
...Carte's History?" JOHNSON. "Yes, Sir. When a man writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly.* The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading,...an instance of a perfect Judge, who devoted himself * Johnson certainly did, who had a mind stored with knowledge, and teeming with imagery ; but the observation... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1901 - 450 pages
...his own mind, he writes very rapidly.1 The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading hi order to write ; a man will turn over half a library...office. JOHNSON : ' Hale, sir, attended to other things besides law : he left a great estate.' BOSWELL : 'That was because what he got accumulated without... | |
 | Whitwell Elwin - Eighteenth century - 1902 - 616 pages
...to Boswell is decisive. " When a man," he said, " writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly. The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading...; a man will turn over half a library to make one book."1 If, however, he did not complete his compositions before he put them upon paper, he was gathering... | |
 | Cuyler Reynolds - Alcoholic beverages - 1902 - 504 pages
...Hutbor—Wrtter—poet But to have the sweet babe of my brain served in pi! 53 LOWELL, Fable for Critics. A man will turn over half a library to make one book. BOSWELL, Life of Johnson. 1775. It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. DISRAEL1. All... | |
 | Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...Vol. c. ciiap. vi. 1774. Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds. ms. A man will turn over half a library to make one book. Chap. riii. 1775. Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. chap. «. Hell is paved with good intentions.1... | |
 | John N. Crawford - Authors, English - 1903 - 442 pages
...inconsequential edition of an inconsequential writer with which he was not familiar. Dr. Johnson said " a man will turn over half a library to make one book." Mr. Crawford would turn over half a dozen libraries to find materials for one article. The willingness... | |
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I once wrote for a magazine : I made a calculation, that if I should write but a page a day, at the same rate, I should, in ten years, write nine volumes in folio, of an ordinary size and print. 
