 | George Frederick Bosworth - 1912 - 310 pages
...of most people who come to it early enough, and Dr Johnson expressed this feeling when he said : — "Why, sir, you find no man at all intellectual who...for there is in London all that life can afford." 29. THE CITY OF WESTMINSTER AND THE BOROUGHS IN THE NORTH-WEST AND SOUTH-WEST OF THE COUNTY OF LONDON.... | |
 | John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1914 - 1514 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 iiere is in London all that life can afford. ¡bid. He was so generally civil that nobody thanked him... | |
 | James Boswell - 1917 - 606 pages
...to reside in London, the exquisite zest with which I relished it in occasional visits might go off, and I might grow tired of it. JOHNSON. 'Why, Sir,...for there is in London all that life can afford.' He said, 'A country gentleman should bring his lady to visit London as soon as he can, that they may... | |
 | Gertrude Richardson Brigham - 1917 - 310 pages
...beginnings of a grand collection. PART IV PICTURES TO SEE IN EUROPE CHAPTER X PICTURES TO SEE IN LONDON " When a man is tired of London he is tired of life for there is in London all that life ran afford." — BOSWELL'S Life of Johnson. Among the many fine collections of painting in London,... | |
 | Julia Patton - 1918 - 264 pages
...in occasional visits might go off, and he might grow tired of it. "Why, Sir," exclaimed the Doctor, "you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing...for there is in London all that life can afford." And again when Boswell ventured to intimate that there were people who were content to live in the... | |
 | Sydney Castle Roberts - 1919 - 210 pages
...amusements. Boswell once suggested that he himself might grow tired of the city if he lived continuously in it : "JOHNSON. 'Why, Sir, you find no man, at all...for there is in London all that life can afford'"; and to the very end he found that "such conversation as London affords, could be found nowhere else."... | |
 | 1920 - 880 pages
...world. " Does not a man sometimes grow tired of London? " asked Boswell. " Sir," replied Dr. Johnson, " when a man is tired of London he is tired of life!" So thought Addison and Steele; and they knew how to choose and how to treat the most representative... | |
 | Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - 1921 - 332 pages
...right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it " ; or, " When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." What joy we feel in the thought that to appreciate such talk as his we need not be literary : it is... | |
 | May Yates - 1922 - 132 pages
...the literary universe, it is true, yet he could never, at any time, have fully endorsed Johnson's " No, sir, when a man is tired of London he is tired...for there is in London all that life can afford." To love and describe nature faithfully one must either live in daily communion with her or be able to... | |
 | 1922 - 650 pages
...Dr. Johnson, the metropolis whose variety and intellectual activity inspired his famous encomium, " When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw great developments in overseas trade, largely through... | |
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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. 
