...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,...

...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...

...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...received no assistance, except four billets in No. 10, by Miss Mulso, now Mrs. Chapone"; No. 30, by Mrs. Catharine Talbot'; No. 97, by Mr. Samuel Richardson,...

...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...received no assistance, except four billets in No. 10, by Miss Mulso, now Mrs. Chapone ; No. 30, by Mrs. Catharine Talbot ; No. Q7, by Mr. Samuel Richardson,...

...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...

...interruption, every Tuesday and Friday, till Saturday the 17th of March, 1752, on wllich day it closed. Notwithstanding his constitutional indolence, his...received no assistance, except four billets in No. 10$ by Miss Mulso, now Mrs. Chapone ; No. 30, by Mrs, Catherine Talbot; No. .97 i by Mr. Samuel Richardson,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...strong confirmation of the truth of a remark of his, which I have had occasion to quote elsewhere, that " a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly toit;" for, notwithstanding his coustitutional indolence, his depression of spirits, and his labour...