was particular in this writer, that when he had taken his resolution, or made his plan for what he designed to write, he would walk about a room, and dictate^ into language with as much freedom and ease as any one could write it down, and attend to the... The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 110by Samuel Johnson - 1820Full view - About this book
| Lucy Aikin - Authors, English - 1843 - 276 pages
...thus proceeds : " If I remember right, the fifth act was written in less than a week's time ; for this was particular in this writer, that when he had taken...for what he designed to write, he would walk about the room, and dictate it into language with as much freedom and ease as any one could write it down,... | |
| Literature - 1911 - 856 pages
...philosophy bears them all on, with the same equable ease. Shrewd good-humor is "the keynote, their 'score the heart Of man, "from the Depths of Stratagem to the' Surface of Affectation." "ls it not much better to be let into the Knowledge of one's Self than to hear what passes in Muscovy... | |
| Joseph Addison - English essays - 1853 - 600 pages
...time in writing ; if I remember right, the fifth act was written in less than a week's time ; for this was particular in this writer, that when he had taken...it into language with as much freedom and ease as one could write it down, and attend to the coherence and grammar of what he dictated. I have been often... | |
| Biography - 1853 - 530 pages
...Dr. Warton affirms that he is so, and that often. Steele describes his habits of composition. " This was particular in this writer, that, when he had taken...he designed to write, he would walk about a room, aud dictate it into language with as much freedom and ease as any one could write it down, and attend... | |
| Joseph Addison - English essays - 1853 - 600 pages
...time in writing ; if I remember right, the fifth act was written in less than a week's time ; for this was particular in this writer, . that when he had...it into language with as much freedom and ease as one could write it down, and attend to the coherence and grammar of what he dictated. I have been often... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1854 - 584 pages
...time in writing ; if I remember right, the fifth act was written in less than a week's time ; for this was particular in this writer, that when he had taken...it into language with as much freedom and ease as one could write it down, and attend to the coherence and grammar of what he dictated. I have been often... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...almost peculiar to himself. He had read with critical eyes the important volume of human life, and knew the heart of man from the depths of stratagem to the surface of affectation. He knew also his own prejudices, for he had already described in print the temptations which beset... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 484 pages
...the occasion demanded. He had read with critical eyes the important volume of human life, and knew the heart of man from the depths of stratagem to the surface of affectation. " Spence. — Jons^os. Ed. Singer, p. 50. " Tonaon and Spence.— JOHNSON. Ed. Singer, p. 47. ** Gibber... | |
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...the occasion demanded. He had read with critical eyes the important volume of human life, and knew the heart of man from the depths of stratagem to the surface of affectation. 80 Spence. — JOHNSON. Ed. Singer, p. 50. 9i Tonson and Spence.— JOHSSON. Ed. Siuger, p. 47. 9l... | |
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