 | 1844 - 660 pages
...Doctor Johnson has told us that — " the greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, is order to write ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book." We may therefore conclude, that as we have ocular proof of our becoming a writing Service, we are also... | |
 | 1866 - 376 pages
...quarries. Johnson declared (putting the thing perhaps too mechanically), " 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." Addison collected three folios of materials before publishing the first number of the " Spectator."... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 326 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... | |
 | 1866 - 760 pages
...quarries. Johnson declared (putting the thing perhaps too mechanically), "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." Addison collected three folios of materials before publishing the first number of the " Spectator."... | |
 | 1856 - 374 pages
...Reiteration, — Buckingham. MDXXXVIL 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. — Johnson. MDXXXVIIL Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flattery. If you flatter all... | |
 | 1859 - 578 pages
...to Boswell is decisive. ' When a man,' he said, ' 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.' If, however, he did not complete his compositions before he put them upon paper, he was gathering fresh... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 pages
...to Boswell is decisive. ' When a man,' he said, ' 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.' If, however, he did not complete his compositions before he put them upon paper, he was gathering fresh... | |
 | 1859 - 650 pages
...to Boswell is decisive. ' When a man,' he said, 1 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.' If, however, he did not complete his compositions before he put them upon paper, he was gathering fresh... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 584 pages
...to Boswell is decisive. ' When a man,' he said, ' 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.' If, however, he did not complete his compositions before he put them upon paper, he was gathering fresh... | |
 | Jacob Lowres - 1862 - 192 pages
...book. — Johnson. Analysis. 1. When a man writes from his own mind 2. Ue writes very rapidly : 3. The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write; 4. A man will turn over half a library to make one book. Adv. sentence to 2nd clause : time. Prin.... | |
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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. 
