 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 634 pages
...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,...his office. JOHNSON. " Hale, Sir, attended to other 1 Johnson certainly did, who had a mind stored with knowledge, and teeming with imagery ; but the observation... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 pages
...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,...man will turn over half a library to make one book." Boswell argued warmly against the judges trading, and mentioned Hale as an instance of a perfect judge,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 500 pages
...Carte's History'? JOHNSON. ' Yes, Sir. When a man writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly3. 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... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - Literary Criticism - 1887 - 514 pages
...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 - Authors, English - 1888 - 544 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 720 pages
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - English literature - 1890 - 568 pages
...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... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...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... | |
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book. 
