 | 1879 - 348 pages
...relished it in occasional visits might go off, and I might grow tired of it. Johnson: "Why, sir, yon find no man at all intellectual who is willing to...of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."—Boswell. TEA.—His defence of tea against Mr. Jonas Hanway's violent attack upon that elegant... | |
 | 1880 - 786 pages
...ambition of the other. • ' When a man is tired of London, " said Dr. Johnson on one occasion to Boswell, "he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." And again: — "Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude o) this city, you must not... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - 1882 - 638 pages
...are one or the other for weeks." Dr. Johnson asserted in another conversation upon the metropolis : " When a man is tired of London he is tired of life...for there is in London all that life can afford." That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one. Of a dull, tiresome fellow.... | |
 | James Hamblin Smith - 1882 - 238 pages
...43. Nay, sit, nay, sit, good cousin Capulet ; For you and I are past our dancing days. Rom. 1, 5, 32. When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life...; for there is in London all that life can afford. — -Johnson. Is there more toil ? Since thou dost give me pains, Let me remember thee what thou hast... | |
 | Charles Wilkins - 1885 - 720 pages
...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." Non omnia posswinun omnes, as Partridge confessed on an embarrassing occasion, and if Johnson ridiculed... | |
 | Cyril Church - 1883 - 854 pages
...generation after this, when he became the great literary dictator,, how differently he speaks — ' Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there isin London all that life can afford.' " Next appeared the "Life of Savage" — Savage, the Earl's... | |
 | James Macaulay - 1884 - 164 pages
...tired of London, and lose the exquisite zest with which occasional visits are relished, Johnson said, " Why, sir, you find no man at all intellectual who...for there is in London all that life can afford." * # * He said also, " There is no place where economy can be so well practised as in London; more can... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 400 pages
...garret. A generation after this when he became the great literary dictator, how differently he speaks. " Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of...for there is in London all that life can afford." His poem at once gave him a name and a standing in the literary world. He had now no need of printer... | |
 | Alexander Farnum - 1884 - 348 pages
...(Walter). Haunted London. With illustrations by FW FAIRHOLT, FSA Thick 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1865 " When a man is tired of London he is tired of life, for there is in London all life can afford." — BOSWELL'S JOHNSON. 1057 THORPE (B.). Northern Mythology; the Popular Traditions... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 544 pages
...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 ;... | |
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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. 
