 The 17th of March, 1752', on which day it closed. This is a strong confirmation of the truth of a remark of his, which I have had occasion to quote elsewhere 2 , that 'a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it 3  Boswell's Life of Johnson: Life (v.l, 1709-1765 - Stran 202avtor: James Boswell - 1887Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Huber Gray Buehler - 1916 - 524 strani
...would watch a mouse. 2. What is read twice is commonly better remembered than what is transcribed. 3. A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. 4. A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. 5. Full fathom... | |
 | charles grosvenor osgood - 1917 - 606 strani
...its authour was enabled to continue it, without interruption, every Tuesday and Friday, till Saturday the 17th of March, 1752, on which day it closed. This...his, which I have had occasion to quote elsewhere, that 'a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it;' for, notwithstanding his... | |
 | Modern Language Association of America - 1917 - 890 strani
...remembers that Milton's " vein never happily flowed but from the Autumnal Equinox to the 'Vernal," and that " a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it." 6 Similarly, the positive dicta in Rasselas on the choice of life are mildly reflected in Reynolds's... | |
 | Edwin Lillie Miller - 1917 - 148 strani
...breathe on it softly; it dies in an hour. CATHERINE MARIA FANSHAWE. CHAPTER VII INDUCTIVE REASONING " A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it." — DR. JOHNSON, in JAMES BOBWELL'S Life of Samuel Johnson, vol. iv, chap, n (1773). I. Kinds of Argumentation... | |
 | Alfred Edward Newton - 1918 - 584 strani
...has written — of all novelists my favorite. Trollope proved the correctness of Johnson's remark, "A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly at it." This we know Trollope did, we have his word for it. His personality was too sane, too matter... | |
 | Edwin Lillie Miller - 1917 - 148 strani
...breathe on it softly; it dies in an hour. CATHERINE MARIA FANSHAWE. CHAPTER VH INDUCTIVE REASONING "A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it." — DR. JOHNSON, in JAMES BOSWELL'S Life of Samuel Johnson, vol. iv, chap. II (1773). I. Kinds of Argumentation... | |
 | JOHN BARTLETT - 1919 - 1476 strani
...but we turn her out of a garden. Ibid. Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young. Ibid. A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. Vol. iv. Chap. ii. 1773. 1 Every investigation which is guided by principles of nature fixes its ultimate... | |
 | James Boswell - 1922 - 562 strani
...to continue it, without interruption, every Tuesday and Saturday, till Saturday the 17th of March, 2 1752, on which day it closed. This is a strong confirmation...his, which I have had occasion to quote elsewhere,' that “a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it;” for, notwithstanding... | |
 | James Boswell - 1923 - 372 strani
...author was enabled to continue it, without interruption, every Tuesday and Saturday, till Saturday the 17th of March, 1752, on which day it closed. This...strong confirmation of the truth of a remark of his, that "a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it"; for, notwithstanding his... | |
 | Wilfred Whitten - 1925 - 228 strani
...rule to splurge in the night hours, and in the morning to purge. On the other hand, Johnson maintained that a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. SHAPING A SONNET A poet's pains of word-finding can be profitably studied in the three versions which... | |
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