 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 it into language with as much freedom and ease as any one could write it down, and attend to the...  The Works of the English Poets: Prefaces - Page 82by Samuel Johnson - 1781Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 484 pages
...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, and attend to the coherence and grammar of what he dictated." 93 Pope,94 who can be less suspected of favouring his memory, declares that he wrote... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 474 pages
...STEELE used to say, that when Addison had taken his resolution, or made his plan for what he designed to write, he would walk about a room, and dictate it into language with as much freedom and ease as any one could write it down, and attend to the coherence and grammar of what he dictated. Even... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 484 pages
...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 it into language with as much freedom and ease as any one could write it down, and attend to the coherence and grammar of what he dictated. I... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 pages
...designed to write, he would walk about a room, and dictate it into language with as much freedom and ease as any one could write it down, and attend to the coherence and grammar of what he dictated." Pope, who can be less suspected of favouring his memory, declares that he wrote very... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1864 - 302 pages
...we are informed by Steele, that Addison, when he had " made his plan for what he designed to write, would walk about a room, and dictate it into language, with as much freedom and ease as anyone could write it down, and attend to the coherence and grammar of what he dictated." His... | |
 | Henry Riddell Montgomery - 1865 - 476 pages
...designed to write, he would walk about a room, and dictate it in language with as much freedom and ease as any one could write it down, and attend to the coherence and grammar of what he dictated." And Pope adds, on the same subject, that " he wrote very fluently, but was slow and scrupulous... | |
 | Henry Riddell Montgomery - 1865 - 476 pages
...designed to write, he would walk about a room, and dictate it in language with as much freedom and ease as any one could write it down, and attend to the coherence and grammar of what he dictated." And Pope adds, on the same subject, that " he wrote very fluently, but was slow and scrupulous... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866 - 552 pages
...rapidly. " When he had taken his resolution," Steele has told us, "or made his plan for what he designed to write, he would walk about a room and dictate it into language with as much freedom aud ease as any one could write it down, and attend to the coherence aud grammar of what he dictated."... | |
 | Public school series - 1874 - 408 pages
...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 it into language with as much freedom and ease as any one could write it down, and attend to the coherence and grammar of what he dictated."... | |
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