 | Myra Reynolds - 1896 - 312 páginas
...hanging in London to a natural death out of it,3 have their true prototypes in the classical age. " When a man is tired of London he is tired of life," is Dr. Johnson's dictum. Gibbon said 1 Pope : Letters, Vol. I, p. 73. 2 Pope : A Farewell to London,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1910 - 502 páginas
...The town is my element ; there are my friends, there are my books, and there are my amusements. . . . When a man is tired of London he is tired of life...for there is in London all that life can afford." Sir Joshua Reynolds was as fond of London as Johnson, " always maintaining," says Malone, " that it... | |
 | Hubert Adonley Hagar - 1910 - 300 páginas
...— Emerson 16 I was bom an American I will live an American I shall die an American — Webster 17 When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life for there is in London all that life can afford — Johnson 18 Talent is that which is in a man's power genius is that in whose jxjwer a man is —... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 210 páginas
...Babies do not want to hear about babies.' ' The great end of comedy is to make an audience merry.' ' When a man is tired of London he is tired of life.' ' A cow is a very good animal in a field, but we turn her out of a garden.' ' No man is a hypocrite... | |
 | George Frederick Bosworth - 1911 - 288 páginas
...of most people who come to it early enough, and Dr Johnson expressed this feeling when he said : " Why, sir, you find no man at all intellectual who...for there is in London all that life can afford." 28. THE CITY OF LONDON AND THE BOROUGHS IN THE NORTH-EAST AND SOUTH-EAST OF THE COUNTY OF LONDON. The... | |
 | George Frederick Bosworth - 1912 - 310 páginas
...of most people who come to it early enough, and Dr Johnson expressed this feeling when he said : — "Why, sir, you find no man at all intellectual who...for there is in London all that life can afford." 29. THE CITY OF WESTMINSTER AND THE BOROUGHS IN THE NORTH-WEST AND SOUTH-WEST OF THE COUNTY OF LONDON.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1913 - 644 páginas
...was exerted upon every occasion. " Pray (said he,) how did your ancestor support his thirty men and thirty horses when he went at a distance from home,...for there is in London all that life can afford." --^_^__^-.j-t_ , To obviate his apprehension, that by settling in London I might desert the seat of... | |
 | John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1914 - 1514 páginas
...but one evil, — poverty. Chap. ix. 1777. Employment, sir, and hardships prevent melancholy. ibid. When a man is tired of London he is tired of life ; for iiere is in London all that life can afford. ¡bid. He was so generally civil that nobody thanked him... | |
 | charles grosvenor osgood - 1917 - 606 páginas
...be deserted, as you would soon find it more desirable to have a country-seat in a better climate.' I suggested a doubt, that if I were to reside in London,...for there is in London all that life can afford.' He said, 'A country gentleman should bring his lady to visit London as soon as he can, that they may... | |
 | James Boswell - 1917 - 606 páginas
...hunger for men. 'The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it.' 'Why, Sir, you find no man at all intellectual who...for there is in London all that life can afford.' As he loved London, so he loved a tavern for its sociability. 'Sir, there is nothing which has yet... | |
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Why, Sir, you \ find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. \ No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford. 
