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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. "
Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and ... - Página 235
por James Boswell - 1799
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1851 - 340 páginas
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The Triumphs of Perseverance and Enterprise: Recorded as Examples for the Young

Thomas Cooper - 1854 - 732 páginas
...almost mechanical. Such attainments can only be reached by the most determined disciple of perseverance. "A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it;" was Johnson's own saying, but he could not have verified it, unless his mind, by assiduous application,...
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Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell - 1860 - 960 páginas
...for composition, and how a man can write at one time, and not at another. " Nay," said Dr. Johnson, " oposal, but have met with impediments, which, I hope, are now at an 4 I here began to indulge old Scottish sentiments, and to express a warm regret, that, by time before...
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The table talk of Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson - 1867 - 158 páginas
...be sure ; but how much more would a young man improve were he to study during those years. WRITING. A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. ARGUMENT. Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled....
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source : Passages ...

John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 páginas
...to find it done at all. Boswell's Life of Johnson. An. 1763. A very unclubable man. ibid. An. 1764. A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. Ibid- An. 1773. Let him go ahead to a distant country ; let him go to some place where he is not known....
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 páginas
...strong confirmation of the truth of a remark of his, which I have had occasion to quote elsewhere,3 'H* hie labour in carrying on his Dictionary, he answered the stated calls of the press twice a week from...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 234

1873 - 758 páginas
...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...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 234

1873 - 750 páginas
...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...
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Eccentric ...

1874 - 674 páginas
...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."...
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Familiar Quotations ...

John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 páginas
...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...
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