 | John Timbs - 1865 - 338 pages
...London is to different people," each person viewing it through the medium of one particular pursuit : " but the intellectual man is struck with it as comprehending...variety, the contemplation of which is inexhaustible." The isolation of London is well conveyed in Horace Walpole's experience, that there is no being alone... | |
 | John Timbs - 1868 - 896 pages
...variety of London, men of curious Inquiry m;iy sea such mode* of life aa very few could ever imagine.' The intellectual man Is struck with It as comprehending...variety, the contemplation of which Is Inexhaustible,"— BOSWELL'S Life of Johnson. "The man that Is tired of London Is tired of existence."— JOHJfSOK. A... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1870 - 478 pages
...grand scene of theatrical entertainments ; a man of pleasure as an assemblage of taverns, &c. &c.; hut the intellectual man is struck with it as comprehending...variety, the contemplation of which is inexhaustible." It does not follow that the other persons whom Boswell speaks of are not, by nature, intelligent. The... | |
 | 1875 - 854 pages
...theatres, to the man of pleasure an assemblage of taverns. The intellectual man is struck with London as comprehending the whole of human life in all its...variety, the contemplation of which is inexhaustible." Such was the summing up of London by one who knew it well. In fact, London is all yon know, and a great... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pages
...in its different departments ; a grazier, ua vast market for cattle ; a mercantile man, aa a place where a prodigious deal of business is done upon 'Change...variety, the contemplation of which is inexhaustible. On Wednesday, July 6, he was engaged to sup with me at my lodgings in Downing Street, Westminster.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pages
...mercantile man, 'as a place where a prodigious deal of business is done upon 'Change ; a dramatick enthusiast, as the grand scene of theatrical entertainments...variety, the contemplation of which is inexhaustible. On Wednesday, July 6, he was engaged to sup with me at my lodgings in Downing-street, Westminster.... | |
 | William Wilthew Fenn - 1878 - 508 pages
...in its different departments; a grazier, as a vast market for cattle ; a mercantile man, as a place where a prodigious deal of business is done upon 'Change;...; a man of pleasure, as an assemblage of taverns, &c. &c.; but the intellectual man is struck with it as comprehending the whole of human life in all... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 528 pages
...of London, men of curious inquiry may see such modes of life as very few could ever imagine. . . . The intellectual man is struck with it as comprehending...variety, the contemplation of which is inexhaustible." — BosweWs Life of Johnson. If a stranger wishes at once to gain the most vivid impression of the... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 678 pages
...in its different departments ; a grazier, as a vast market for cattle; a mercantile man, as a place where a prodigious deal of business is done upon 'Change...variety, the contemplation of which is inexhaustible.' " Charles Dickens, too, is not far behind his compeers in his love of London. Its society and life... | |
 | George Routledge (and sons; ltd.) - 1880 - 262 pages
...merely as the seat of government ; a grazier, as a vast market for cattle ; a mercantile man, as a place where a prodigious deal of business is done upon 'Change...; a man of pleasure, as an assemblage of taverns. But the intellectual man is struck with it as comprehending the whole of human life in all its variety,... | |
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They, whose narrow minds are contracted to the consideration of some one particular pursuit, view it only through that medium. A politician thinks of it merely as the seat of government in its different departments ; a grazier, as a vast market for cattle... 
