 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1887 - 514 pagina’s
...felicity. ... A final condition is thoroughness. 'The greater part of an author's time,' said Dr. Johnson, 'is spent in reading in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.' . . . There is still preserved at Ferrara the piece of paper on which Ariosto wrote in sixteen different... | |
 | James Boswell - 1888 - 544 pagina’s
...Carte's History?" JOHNSON. " Yes, Sir. When a man writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly." The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading,...an instance of a perfect Judge, who devoted himself ^^ «ntirely to his office. JOHNSON. " Hale, Sir, attended to other things beside law: he left a great... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 504 pagina’s
...Carte's History ? ' " JOHNSON. " Yes, Sir ; when a man writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly.1 The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading,...office. JOHNSON. "Hale, Sir,, attended to other things besides law ; he left a great estate." BOSWELL. " That was because what he got accumulated without... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 pagina’s
...chief glory of every people arises from its authors. 331 Johnson: Works. V. 49. (Oxford edition, 1825.) The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading,...man will turn over half a library to make one book. 332 Johnson : Boswell's Life of Johnson. 1775. (Routledge edition, Vol. ii. Ch. 10.) The more intellectual... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbyteries. Carlisle - 1889 - 638 pagina’s
...LAYMEN OF TIE FAST WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF % THE PRESBYTERY OF CARLISLE. HY l)RS. VANCK ANii NORCROSS. " A man will turn over half a library to make one book. " — Samuel Johnson. "Me write a book!" said he; ••I've mair sense. You'll find that you're sure... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pagina’s
...Carte's History?" JOHNSON: "Yes, Sir, when a man writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly.* The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading,...trading, and mentioned Hale as an instance of a perfect Ëlge, who devoted himself entirely to his office. ÍNSON: "Hale, Sir, attended to other things ides... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pagina’s
...Medicine for the soul. e. Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes. Diodorus Siculut. 1.49,3. ! 1 /. SAM' L JOHNSON — BoswelFt Life of Johnson. 1775. Books have always a secret influence on the understanding... | |
 | Henry Gyles Turner, Alexander Sutherland - 1898 - 454 pagina’s
...decide it has not time to look at. Bluff old Samuel Johnson said : " The greater part of an author's time is spent in reading in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book." This implies a state of things apparently not compatible with our present environment, and consequently... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pagina’s
...Carte's History?" JOHNSON : " Yes, Sir, when a man writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly.* 0 besides law : he left a great estate." BOSWELL : "That was because what he got accumulated without... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 pagina’s
...Carte's History?" JOHNSON. "Yes, Sir. When a man writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly.* The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading,...an instance of a perfect Judge, who devoted himself * Johnson certainly did, who had a mind stored with knowledge, and teeming with imagery ; but the observation... | |
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I made a calculation, that if I should write but a page a day, at the same rate, I should, in ten years, write nine volumes in folio, of an ordinary size and print. 
