...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...

...he answered, "I hope not. If I did I should frighten the ghost." August 16. "Nay," said Dr. Johnson, "a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it." August 18. On this day we set out from Edinburgh. We had a dreary drive, on a dusky night, to St. Andrews,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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.' James Boswell, 1785, 'Monday 16th August', in The journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 21:18 1 could see...

...Johnson's quip about the effects of anticipating one's own hanging. Johnson also wrote, I reminded myself, that a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. Myron Weiner died at his home in Vermont on June 3,1999. INTRODUCTION 1 opulation—its growth or decline,...

...undertakes to teach.' SAMUEL JOHNSON, Preface to Richard Rolt, Dictionary of Trade and Commerce (1756) 'A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.' SAMUEL JOHNSON inJames Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) INTRODUCTION [T]he historiography...