 | Samuel Arthur Bent - 1882 - 638 Seiten
...are one or the other for weeks." Dr. Johnson asserted in another conversation upon the metropolis : " When a man is tired of London he is tired of life...for there is in London all that life can afford." That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one. Of a dull, tiresome fellow.... | |
 | Charles Wilkins - 1885 - 720 Seiten
...the most brilliant men of a brilliant period. Can we now wonder at his confession of faith, that " when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life...for there is in London all that life can afford." Non omnia posswinun omnes, as Partridge confessed on an embarrassing occasion, and if Johnson ridiculed... | |
 | Cyril Church - 1883 - 854 Seiten
...generation after this, when he became the great literary dictator,, how differently he speaks — ' Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there isin London all that life can afford.' " Next appeared the "Life of Savage" — Savage, the Earl's... | |
 | James Macaulay - 1884 - 164 Seiten
...tired of London, and lose the exquisite zest with which occasional visits are relished, Johnson said, " Why, sir, you find no man at all intellectual who...for there is in London all that life can afford." * # * He said also, " There is no place where economy can be so well practised as in London; more can... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 400 Seiten
...garret. A generation after this when he became the great literary dictator, how differently he speaks. " Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of...for there is in London all that life can afford." His poem at once gave him a name and a standing in the literary world. He had now no need of printer... | |
 | Alexander Farnum - 1884 - 348 Seiten
...(Walter). Haunted London. With illustrations by FW FAIRHOLT, FSA Thick 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1865 " When a man is tired of London he is tired of life, for there is in London all life can afford." — BOSWELL'S JOHNSON. 1057 THORPE (B.). Northern Mythology; the Popular Traditions... | |
 | Charles Wilkins - 1885 - 610 Seiten
...the most brilliant men of a brilliant period. Can we now wonder at his confession of faith, that " when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life...for there is in London all that life can afford/' A"o/t omnia possuruus omnes, as Partridge confessed on an embarrassing occasion, and if Johnson ridiculed... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1887 - 632 Seiten
...with which I relished it on occasional visits might go off, and I might grow tired of it. JOHKSON : " Why, sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who...for there is in London all that life can afford." We walked in the evening in Greenwich (grin' V) Park. He asked me, I suppose by way of trying my disposition,... | |
 | William Mathews - 1887 - 406 Seiten
...antennae nearly touch Dulwich and Balham. " When a man is tired of London," said Dr. Johnson to Boswell, "he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." Charles Lamb used to shed tears in the motley and crowded Strand from fulness of joy at the sight of... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1891 - 1190 Seiten
...hat one evil, — poverty. Chap. ix. 1777. Employment, sir, and hardships prevent melancholy. Ihid. When a man is tired of London he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford. ihid. He was so generally civil that nohody thanked him for it. ihid. Goldsmith, however, was a man... | |
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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. 
