 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 Seiten
...Restoration. — Buckingham. MDXXXV1I. 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. MDXXXVIn. Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flattery. If you flatter all... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 Seiten
...Restoration. — Buckingham. MDXXXVII. 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. MDxxxvm. Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flattery. If you flatter all... | |
 | 1866 - 856 Seiten
...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."... | |
 | 1844 - 660 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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."... | |
 | 1866 - 760 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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) - 1859 - 584 Seiten
...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... | |
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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. 
