 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 trang
...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.' I here began to indulge old Scottish ' sentiments, and to face upon the streets was at once remarked,... | |
 | James Anderson - 1792 - 386 trang
...the right owner. If a single woman is li-i centious, you will rarely find her faithful in mar* riage. A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it. "fo be continued. VERSES ON HAPPINESS. Far the Bee. T. s there a man who ne'er has sorrow known, Nor... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 trang
...strong confirmation of the truth of a remark of his, which I have had occasion to quote elsewhere,5 that " a man may write at any time, if he will set...from the stores of his mind, during all that time ; having received no assistance, except four billets in No. 10, by Miss Mulso, now Mrs. Chapone ; No.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 trang
...strong confirmation of the truth of a remark of his, which I have had occasion to quote elsewhere4, that 'a man may write at any time, if he will set...from the stores of his mind, during all that time; having received no assistance, except four billets in No. 10, by Miss Mulso, now Mrs. Chapone"; No.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 trang
...16, 1773), that when 'somebody talked of happy moments for composition,' Johnson said : — ' Nay, a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.' Reynolds, who avowed how much he had learnt from Johnson (ante, p. 284), says much the same in his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 trang
...interruption, every Tuesday and Friday, till Saturday the 17th of March, 1752, on wllich day it closed. Notwithstanding his constitutional indolence, his...from the stores of his mind, during all that time having received no assistance, except four billets in No. 10$ by Miss Mulso, now Mrs. Chapone ; No.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 trang
...strong confirmation of the truth of a remark of his, which I have had occasion to quote elsewhere, 7 that "a man may write at any time, if he will set...from the stores of his mind, during all that time; having received no assistance, except four billets in No. 10, by Miss Mulso, now Mrs. Chapone ; No.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 496 trang
...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." I here began to indulge old Scottish sentiments, and to express a warm regret, that, by our Union with... | |
 | James Boswell - 1810 - 438 trang
...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." 1 here begun to indulge old Scottish sentiments, and to express a warm regret, that, by our Union with... | |
 | James Boswell - 1813 - 492 trang
...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." I here began to indulge old Scottish sentiments, and to express a warm regret, that, by our Union with... | |
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This is a strong confirmation of the truth of a remark of his, which I have had occasion to quote elsewhere P, that " a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it... 
