 | James Boswell - 1928 - 364 Seiten
...apt to degenerate, from want of exercise and competition. (Ibid., 3. 138 — Collectanea of Maxwell.) "Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who...for there is in London all that life can afford." (Ibid., 3. 202.) "No wise man will go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1928 - 280 Seiten
...happiness, we must travel into a very far country, and even out of ourselves. Sir Thomas Browne, C, 101. SIR, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of...life; for there is in London all that life can afford. Dr. Johnson, B, III, 178. WHY, Sir, Fleet Street has a very animated appearance; but, I think the full... | |
 | Lore Holzhausen Liebenam (Frau) - 1928 - 152 Seiten
...Lebensführung, Einsamkeit dagegen die Mutter aller Betrübnis. Johnson. kam sogar zu der kr un Konsequenz: „When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life,...for there is in London all that life can afford".») Für die Dichtung, die aus dem menschlichen Hange zur Einsamkeit hervorgegangen ist und die Schilderung... | |
 | Michael Pacione - 2001 - 716 Seiten
...the urban geographer at different levels of the globallocal spectrum. 4. Dr Johnston (1709-84) said 'when a man is tired of London he is tired of life;...for there is in London all that life can afford', yet Shelley (1792-1822) thought that vhell is a city much like London'. Make a list of the positive... | |
 | Victor Sawdon Pritchett - 2001 - 220 Seiten
...IVpvs, 1 )eloe, Hogarth, Dickens, and ol course, that consummate Londoner, Samuel Johnson, who ohs< "\o, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life, for there is in I ondon all that life can allord."And here, too, are the faces ol'the people inhabiting I ondon todav... | |
 | Peter Martin - 2002 - 644 Seiten
...its dark and winding lanes. London was progressive, the pride of Europe. 'He that is tired of London is tired of life, for there is in London all that life can afford,' Samuel Johnson remarked, and there certainly was a multiplicity of amusements and a richness of history,... | |
 | Sheila O'Connell - 2003 - 300 Seiten
...occasional visits might go off, and I might grow tired of it.' Johnson entertained no such reservations: 'Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who...for there is in London all that life can afford.' 1 Reddaway. 2 I.1ndsav. 3 For a masterly account sec Summerson. 4 Summerson, Wren. T Defoe. 6 Thomson.... | |
 | John Carrington - 2003 - 344 Seiten
...a genius that could cut a colossus from a rock; but he could not carve heads upon cherry stones. - When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. - Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.... | |
 | Paul Henderson Scott - 2003 - 372 Seiten
...melancholy was as clearly dissipated as if it had never existed in my mind. Johnson, you remember, said that "when a man is tired of London he is tired of life;...for there is in London all that life can afford", but he also said that he had never known a man "with such a gust" for London as Boswell. 4 His longing... | |
 | Deborah Cassidi - 2003 - 196 Seiten
...Flossenberg concentration camp on 9 April 1945. A week later the camp was liberated by the Allies. When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-84), quoted in Boswell's Life of Samu 20 September 1777 'Having lived for... | |
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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. 
