 | Wilfred Whitten - 1924 - 186 sayfa
...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. Words, however, are things ; and the man who accords To his language the license to outrage his soul,... | |
 | 1925 - 770 sayfa
...which computation Johnson's essays would be but farthing pieces) we can put the great man's own dictum: 'A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.' Thirdly, it is a popular fallacy — and branded as such by Lamb himself — that enough is as good... | |
 | George Gissing - 1926 - 580 sayfa
...was still obliged to give exclusive attention to the matter under treatment. Dr. Johnson's saying, that a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it, was often upon his lips, and had even been of help to him, as no doubt it has to many another man obliged... | |
 | John Earle Uhler - 1926 - 200 sayfa
...caught young. 4. Time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has wasted them. 5. A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. 6. When you come home, we will not believe you. 7. I have a better opinion of him now than I once nad.... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1928 - 280 sayfa
...lost. Ibid., W, II, 25. SELF-CONFIDENCE is the first requisite to great undertakings. Ibid., IV, 6. A MAN may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it. Ibid., B, I, 203. No great man will ever drill. None will ever solve the problem of his character according... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 sayfa
...and his type locked up while waiting for the author's corrections. But while Johnson may have bragged that "a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it," accepting writing as labor, rather than the more noble activity Arendt calls "work," he always had... | |
 | Peter France - 1992 - 268 sayfa
...speaking his own sentiments' (Life, p. 353).2 The real man of letters can perform on any subject, and 'a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it' (Life, p. 144). The consciousness of universal literary ability went with an eye for fame and the ways... | |
 | Peter Martin - 1995 - 364 sayfa
...uncomfortable allusion to Johnson's remark that no moments of composition were 'happier' than others and that 'a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.'25 'I beg of you to comfort me', Boswell appeals, 'instead of scolding me.' 'I have always found... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 sayfa
...best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you. 5079 Boswell - Life s led. directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one 5080 Boswell - Life If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon... | |
 | Joan Aiken - 1998 - 112 sayfa
...situations, and the actions and behaviour of people in those situations, then you are a story-teller. A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. Samuel Johnson, Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides Assembling your Material; Getting Started... | |
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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. 
