 | James Boswell - 1889 - 456 strani
...his own mind, he writes very rapidly.1 The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library,...attended to other things besides law ; he left a great estaie." BOSWELL. " That was because what he got accumulated without any exertion and anxiety on his... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 strani
...Works. V. 49. (Oxford edition, 1825.) The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book. 332 Johnson : Boswell's Life of Johnson. 1775. (Routledge edition, Vol. ii. Ch. 10.) The more intellectual... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbyteries. Carlisle - 1889 - 646 strani
...LAYMEN OF TIE FAST WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF % THE PRESBYTERY OF CARLISLE. HY l)RS. VANCK ANii NORCROSS. " A man will turn over half a library to make one book. " — Samuel Johnson. "Me write a book!" said he; ••I've mair sense. You'll find that you're sure... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 strani
...his own mind, he writes very rapidly.* The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library...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... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 strani
...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 - 1898 - 444 strani
...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 - 1900 - 546 strani
...his own mind, he writes very rapidly.* The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write : a man will turn over half a library...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 - 1901 - 502 strani
...his own mind, he writes very rapidly.1 The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library...of a perfect Judge, who devoted himself entirely to 1 Johnson certainly did, who had a mind stored with knowledge, and teeming with imagery : but the observation... | |
 | Whitwell Elwin - 1902 - 574 strani
...from his own mind, he writes very rapidly. The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write ; 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 - 1902 - 504 strani
...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... | |
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write : a man will turn over half a library to make one book. 
