 | James Boswell - 1851 - 410 Seiten
...attending upon him. 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...any time, if he will set himself doggedly* to it." There is a Eupham Macallan, or Macalzean, well known in Scotch history, who was burned as a witch in... | |
 | 1852 - 710 Seiten
...writing. It cost him severe self-denial and effort to put pen to paper. Dr Johnson used to say, a man can write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it. All that a mind like Johnson's or Foster's needed was the first dogged effort, and then the intellectual... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1853 - 406 Seiten
...writing. It cost him severe self-denial and effort to put pen to paper. Dr. Johnson used to say, a man can write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it. All that a mind like Johnson's or Foster's needed was the first dogged effort, and then the intellectual... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1854 - 732 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 Seiten
...attending upon him. 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...any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it." 4 I here began to indulge old Scottish sentiments, and to express a warm regret, that, by time before... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 Seiten
...the truth of a remark of his, which I have had occasion to quote elsewhere [Aug. 16. 1773], that " a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it ;" for, notwithstanding his constitutional indolence, his depression of spirits, and his labour in... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 434 Seiten
...suspect, had confounded the reputed witch, whose name is uncommon, with the covenanting prophetess.—ED. I here began to indulge old Scottish sentiments, and to express a i regret that by our union with England we were no more—bur independent kingdom was lost.—JOHNSON... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1867 - 158 Seiten
...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.... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 Seiten
...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.... | |
 | 1873 - 758 Seiten
...attending upon him. 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...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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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. 
