| James Boswell - 1884 - 814 páginas
...silk mill, ii. 428. London, Johnson reasons on the immensity of, i. 345 ; happiness of life in, 474 ; when a man is tired of London he is tired of life. ii. 440 ; the advantage of living in, iii. 86 ; the poor in, 105. a poem of Johnson's, i. 83, 89 ;... | |
| Charles Wilkins - 1885 - 610 páginas
...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... | |
| James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 páginas
...JOHNSON. '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 '.' To obviate his apprehension, that by settling in London I might desert the seat of my ancestors,... | |
| James Boswell - 1887 - 492 páginas
...JOHNSON. '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'.' To obviate his apprehension, that by settling in London I might desert the seat of my ancestors, I... | |
| William Mathews - 1887 - 406 páginas
...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... | |
| James Boswell - 1890 - 568 páginas
...example of good order, virtue, and piety ; and so its residence at home may be of 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." To obviate his apprehension, that by settling in London I might desert the seat of my ancestors, I... | |
| John Bartlett - 1891 - 1190 páginas
...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... | |
| 1893 - 822 páginas
...sir," cried Johnson, " 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. A country gentleman should bring his lady to visit London as soon as he can, that they may have agreeable... | |
| 1894 - 756 páginas
...exclaimed : " Why, sir, yon 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." Notwithstanding which opinion, we find Johnson indulging in a grumble against certain shortcomings... | |
| 1894 - 858 páginas
...London in the Poets. lind no man at all intellectual who is willing to leave London. No, sir, when л man is tired of London he is tired of life, for there is in London all that life can afford." Notwithstanding which opinion, we find Johnson indulging in a grumble against certain shortcomings... | |
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