| James Boswell - 1889 - 480 páginas
...Wives, two allowed to the Landgrave of Hesse, 182. Worthington, Dr., a Welsh clergyman, 386. Writing, a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it, 25. Wynne, Mrs. Glynn, sings Welsh songs to Johnson, 392. • Sir Thomas, Lord Newborough, 3S9 n. Yesterday.... | |
| James Boswell - 1889 - 558 páginas
...Wives, two allowed to the Landgrave of Hesse, 182. Worthington, Dr., a Welsh clergyman, 386. Writing, a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it, 25. Wynne, Mrs. Glynn, sings Welsh songs to Johnson, 392. Sir Thomas, Lord Newborough, 3S9 n. Yesterday.... | |
| Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 páginas
...respectable householders. 318 Douylas Jerrold : Specimens of Jerrold' s Wit. The Perils of Authorship. A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. 319 Johnson: Bo.iwell's Life, of Johnson. V. 40. (George Kirkbeck Hill, Editor, 1887.) An author and... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 296 páginas
...Rambler. He is also wrong in asserting that Friday was one of the days on which the paper was published. man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it.' " l He left himself no time for correction. "Almost all his Ramblers " were written (he said) just... | |
| Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 páginas
...respectable householders. 318 Douglus Jerrold : Specimens of .ferrold's Wit. The Perils of Authorship. A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly toit. 319 Johnson : Boswell's Life of Johnson. V. 40. (George Birkbeck Hill, Editor, 1887.) An author... | |
| Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1878 - 1892 - 232 páginas
...The Secretary asks for ' the titles of any books or pamphlets written, and a description of them.' ' A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it,' says Johnson, — but to publish . . . that is altogether another thing. Here I have ' a trunkfull... | |
| JAMES BOSWELL - 1892
...Wives, two allowed to the Landgrave of Hesse, 182. Worthington, Dr., a Welsh clergyman, 386. Writing, a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it, 25. Wynne, Mrs. Glvnn, sings Welsh songs to Johnson, 392. Sir Thomas, Lord Newborough, 3S9 n. Yesterday.... | |
| Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1878 - 1892 - 232 páginas
...The Secretary asks for ' the titles of any books or pamphlets written, and a description of them.' ' A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it,' says Johnson, — but to publish . . . that is altogether another thing. Here I have ' a trunkfull... | |
| Yale University. Sheffield Scientific School. Class of 1893 - 1893 - 168 páginas
...search of true literary genius must pass quickly on to other writings. Dr. Jonson very truly remarks, " A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it." Hence, in seeking the literary ability of any set of writers the quality only, and not the quantity,... | |
| James Boswell - 1900 - 928 páginas
...strong confirmation of the truth of a remark of his, which I have had occasion to quote elsewhere, \ entleman proposed after you, was rejected. I thank...but wish he were not so fine. I will take care of lo, by Miss Mulso, now Mrs Chapone; No. 30, by Mrs Catherine Talbot; No. 97, by Mr Samuel Richardson,... | |
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