 | John Bartlett - 1891 - 1190 pages
...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 - 662 pages
...London if, instead of an occasional visit, he made it his residence. " Why, sir," cried Johnson, " you find no man at all intellectual who is willing...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 - 740 pages
...occasion, when Boswell suggested that as a constant résidant he might grow tired of it, exclaimed : " Why, sir, you find no man at all Intellectual who...for there is in London all that life can afford." Notwithstanding which opinion, we find Johnson indulging in a grumblu against certain shortcomings... | |
 | 1894 - 756 pages
...Boswell suggested that as a constant resident he might grow tired of it, exclaimed : " Why, sir, yon find no man at all intellectual who is willing to...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 pages
...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... | |
 | 1895 - 534 pages
...across the Strand, at the thought of so much life. " When a man is tired of London," says Dr. Johnson, " he is tired of life, for there is in London all that life can afford." WESTMINSTER ABBEY. As a sanctuary, temple and tomb, this glorious Abbey has won the attention of successive... | |
 | Edward Lowe Temple - 1899 - 446 pages
...where so many Americans congregate, and which seem in themselves to be dulness itself by comparison. " When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life;...for there is in London all that life can afford," said the metropolis-loving Doctor Johnson, though this did not prevent his journeying to Edinburgh... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 pages
...reside in London, the exquisite zest with which I relished it in occasional visits might grow off, and I might grow tired of it. JOHNSON. " Why, Sir,...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 assured him, that... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pages
...to reside Jn London, the exquisite zest with which I relished it in occasional visits might go off, e had read, and that he must have been speaking with...is possible, and to which few scholars in the whole apprehension, that by settling in London I might desert the seat of my ancestors, I assured him that... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 pages
...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 there is in London all that life can afford. ibid. He was so generally civil that nobody thanked him for it. ibid. 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. 
