 | 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Gertrude Richardson Brigham - 1917 - 310 páginas
...beginnings of a grand collection. PART IV PICTURES TO SEE IN EUROPE CHAPTER X PICTURES TO SEE IN LONDON " When a man is tired of London he is tired of life for there is in London all that life ran afford." — BOSWELL'S Life of Johnson. Among the many fine collections of painting in London,... | |
 | Julia Patton - 1918 - 264 páginas
...in occasional visits might go off, and he might grow tired of it. "Why, Sir," exclaimed the Doctor, "you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing...for there is in London all that life can afford." And again when Boswell ventured to intimate that there were people who were content to live in the... | |
 | Sydney Castle Roberts - 1919 - 210 páginas
...amusements. Boswell once suggested that he himself might grow tired of the city if he lived continuously in it : "JOHNSON. 'Why, Sir, you find no man, at all...for there is in London all that life can afford'"; and to the very end he found that "such conversation as London affords, could be found nowhere else."... | |
 | 1920 - 880 páginas
...world. " Does not a man sometimes grow tired of London? " asked Boswell. " Sir," replied Dr. Johnson, " when a man is tired of London he is tired of life!" So thought Addison and Steele; and they knew how to choose and how to treat the most representative... | |
 | Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - 1921 - 332 páginas
...right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it " ; or, " When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." What joy we feel in the thought that to appreciate such talk as his we need not be literary : it is... | |
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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. 
