 | Oswald Doughty - 1924 - 222 pages
...summer were redolent of hawthorn." These facts we must bear in mind when we hear Johnson saying : " When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life...for there is in London all that life can afford." Even the passage in Boswell which records Johnson's strongest general denunciation of a country life... | |
 | Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - 1924 - 322 pages
...intellectual fellowship to be enjoyed in London did their best to keep him in it. He himself said, " When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life...for there is in London all that life can afford." Johnson loved London and, if we think of him, we usually picture him enthroned in a chair in his beloved... | |
 | 1926 - 524 pages
...a Lichfield man, he is the Londoner par excellence, by long association and by love of our city. " When a man is tired of London he is tired of life, for there is in London all that life can afford " — only a true lover could have said that. Johnson had many homes in and about London City, but... | |
 | Alan Mulgan - 1927 - 248 pages
...beauty are — Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose. — WALTER DE LA MARE. No, sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired...; for there is in London all that life can afford. — DR. JOHNSON. CONCEIVE then that first day in England — a fine, mild morning near the end of April,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 364 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Christopher Hollis - 1928 - 240 pages
...which, of all themes, Johnson was later to come most heartily to dislike. " No, sir," he was to say, " when a man is tired of London he is tired of life, for there is in London all that life can afford." Because he soon revolted against a merely Rousseauan insincerity and refused any longer to dupe himself... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 368 pages
...man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he a tired of life; 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... | |
 | Michael Pacione - 2001 - 716 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
